CT fluoroscopy-guided cervical interlaminar steroid injections: Safety, technique, and radiation dose parameters

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1221-1224

  Kranz, P G ^a   Raduazo, P ^a   Gray, L ^a   Kilani, R K ^a   Hoang, J K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE ACETATE PLUS BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL SPACE; EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NECK PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIATION DOSE; RADICULAR PAIN; SPINAL CORD; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEROIDS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865308283     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2954     Document Type: Article

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