Epidural steroid injections

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-59

  Wilkinson, Indy M ^a   Cohen, Steven P ^a,b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Cost effectiveness; Disability; Epidural steroid injection; Interlaminar epidural steroid injection; Low back pain; Neuropathic spinal pain; Pain management; Radiculopathy; Sciatica; Transforaminal epidural steroid injection

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINOCICEPTION; BLINDNESS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC PAIN; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTION; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; EUPHORIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HERPES ESOPHAGITIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOW BACK PAIN; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPATHIC SPINAL PAIN; NEUROPATHY; NOCICEPTIVE PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSIS; RADICULAR PAIN; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL PAIN; STEROID THERAPY; STOMACH ULCER; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; BACK PAIN; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; RADICULOPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857626980     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-011-0236-9     Document Type: Review

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