Convulsion Caused by a Lidocaine Test in Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection

PM and R

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 674-677

  Chung, Sun G ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL; LIDOCAINE; STEROID;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL TRANSFORAMINAL EPIDURLA STEROID INJECTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; MYALGIA; OXYGEN THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RADICULAR PAIN; RESUSCITATION; SHOULDER PAIN;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; IOPAMIDOL; LIDOCAINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; RADICULOPATHY; SEIZURES; STEROIDS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 79960471908     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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