Outcomes of interlaminar and transforminal spinal injections

Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 6-10

  Landa, Joshua ^a   Kim, Yong ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; MORPHINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID;

AIR EMBOLISM; ALLERGY; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEATH; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; ISCHIALGIA; LUMBAR SPINE; NECK MUSCLE; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADICULOPATHY; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACK PAIN; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865505881     PISSN: 19369719     EISSN: 19369727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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