Analysis of inadvertent intradiscal and intravascular injection during lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injections a prospective study

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 520-525

  Hong, Ji H ^a   Kim, Sae Y ^a   Huh, Billy ^b   Shin, Hyun H ^a  

^a Keimyung University   (South Korea)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; MEPIVACAINE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR TRANSFORAMINAL EPIDURAL INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADICULAR PAIN; SAMPLE SIZE; SPINAL NERVE; SYRINGE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; STEROIDS; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890090884     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0000000000000010     Document Type: Article

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