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Image-guided facet joint injection
Chronic spine pain poses a peculiar diagnostic and therapeutic challenge due to multiple pain sources, overlapping clinical features and nonspecific radiological findings. Facet joint injection is an interventional pain management tool for facet-related spinal pain that can be effectively administered by a radiologist. This technique is the gold standard for identifying facet joints as the sour...
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متن کاملPatients' response to facet joint injection.
The aim of the present study was to assess prospectively patients' response to facet joint injection performed for lumbar back pain, and to check if it correlates with the response predicted by the Helbig and Lee scoring system. Fifty-seven patients who had facet joint injections for mechanical low back pain unresponsive to medical treatment, were followed-up. Patients' perception of improvemen...
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Lumbar spinal cysts often present with backache and may be accompanied by lower extremity weakness as well as radiation pain if root compression occurs. The treatment regimens include anti-inflammatory drugs, physical therapy, procedures guided by fluoroscopy or computed tomography, and surgery. We report the case of a patient with a symptomatic lumbar spinal cyst at the L4-L5 facet joint. The ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2090-7125
DOI: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.42127