Radiation dose incurred in the exclusion of vascular filling in transforaminal epidural steroid injections: Fluoroscopy, digital subtraction angiography, and ct/fluoroscopy

Pain Medicine (United States)

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1328-1333

  Maus, Timothy ^a   Schueler, Beth A ^a   Leng, Shuai ^a   Magnuson, Dayne ^a   Magnuson, Dixon J ^a   Diehn, Felix E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural (injection space); Fluoroscopy; Radiculopathy; Safety; Steroids

Indexed keywords

STEROID; CORTICOSTEROID;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGING PHANTOM; LUMBAR SPINE; PULSED COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY FLUOROSCOPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84906058088     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pme.12455     Document Type: Article

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