CT-guided transforaminal epidural injections with local anesthetic, steroid, and tramadol for the treatment of persistent lumbar radicular pain

Pain Physician

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 153-159

  Wewalka, Mathias ^a   Abdelrahimsai, Ahmadollah ^a   Wiesinger, Günther F ^b   Uher, Eva Maria ^a  

^a Landesklinikum Mistelbach ^*  (Austria)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Nerve root infiltration; Outcome; Serial; Tramadol

Indexed keywords

ROPIVACAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRAMADOL; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; PILOT STUDY; RADICULAR PAIN; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STEROIDS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAMADOL;

EID: 84859118472     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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