Immediate complications and pain relief associated with 296 fluoroscopically guided thoracic foraminal nerve blocks

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1410-1416

  Wang, Alfred ^a   Pilgram, Thomas K ^b   Gilula, Louis A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Epidural blocks; Fluoroscopy; Foraminal; Nerve blocks; Thoracic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; CEPHALOCAUDAL FLOW; COMPLICATION; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FLOW KINETICS; FLUOROSCOPY; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; NEEDLE; NEEDLE TIP POSITION; NERVE BLOCK; NUMBER OF INJECTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SYNCOPE; THORACIC FORAMINAL NERVE BLOCK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 82455217277     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6652     Document Type: Review

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