Inadvertent injection of a cervical radicular artery using an atraumatic pencil-point needle

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Smuck, Matthew ^a   Leung, Daniel ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical; epidural; injection; rehabilitation; vascular

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY; ARTICLE; ATRAUMATIC PENCIL POINT NEEDLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL RADICULAR ARTERY; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; FLUOROSCOPY; HAND PARESTHESIA; HUMAN; MALE; NEEDLE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ARTERIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; NEEDLES;

EID: 79551560538     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181f13417     Document Type: Article

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