Cervical spinal cord injection of epidural corticosteroids: Comprehensive longitudinal study including multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging

Pain

Volumn 153, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2292-2299

  Cohen Adad, Julien ^a,b,c   Buchbinder, Bradley ^a,b   Oaklander, Anne Louise ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adverse event; Central motor conduction time; Diffusion tensor imaging; Magnetization transfer; Spinal cord injury; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; DEXAMETHASONE; IOHEXOL; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BODY TEMPERATURE SENSATION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL MOTOR CONDUCTION TIME; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CONCUSSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDURAL SPACE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT DROP; FOOT ORTHOSIS; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE SPASM; NECK PAIN; NEEDLE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SKIN TINGLING; SPASTICITY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WALKING AID; WHIPLASH INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NECK PAIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84867573904     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.07.028     Document Type: Article

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