Real-time MR-guided lumbosacral periradicular injection therapy using an open 1.0-t mri system: An outcome study

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 471-476

  Streitparth, Florian ^a   De Bucourt, Maximilian ^a   Hartwig, Tony ^a   Leidenberger, Tilman ^a   Rump, Jens ^a   Walter, Thula ^a   Maurer, Martin ^a   Renz, Diane ^a   Stelter, Lars ^a   Wiener, Edzard ^a   Hamm, Bernd ^a   Teichgräber, Ulf ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

clinical outcome; interventional MRI; low back pain; Open MRI; periradicular nerve root injection; spine injection

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INJECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIRADICULAR NERVE ROOT INJECTION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84877575294     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31828362be     Document Type: Article

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