Thoughts on Evidence-Based Medicine and Interlaminar Epidural Injections
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Thoughts on evidence-based medicine and interlaminar epidural injections.
To the Editor: Recently, I was asked to co-author a review of the scientific evidence for, or against, the use of epidural steroid injections to treat pain. Although there have been many studies published over the years showing efficacy for interlaminar epidural injections, none met the criteria for our report because most were not randomized and none evaluated injections using fluoroscopy. On ...
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عنوان ژورنال: October 2005
سال: 2005
ISSN: 2150-1149,1533-3159
DOI: 10.36076/ppj.2005/8/421