Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection: Is the Success Rate Predictable?
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[Lumbar epidural steroid injection: Is the success rate predictable?].
OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the relation between the percent of canal compromise and success rate of epidural steroid injection (ESI) in patients with symptomatic lumbar herniated intervertebral discs. METHODS Patients with lumbar herniated intervertebral disc suffering from leg pain and treated with ESI were selected. The axial magnetic resonance (MR) image showing the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ağrı - The Journal of The Turkish Society of Algology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1300-0012
DOI: 10.5505/agri.2011.93898