Cervical Radicular Pain: Injection Procedures

Interventional Spine E-Book: An Algorithmic Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 645-656

  Lipetz, Jason S ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-7216-2872-1.50064-9     Document Type: Chapter

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