Unintentional lumbar facet joint injection guided by fluoroscopy during interlaminar epidural steroid injection: a retrospective analysis
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عنوان ژورنال: The Korean Journal of Pain
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2005-9159,2093-0569
DOI: 10.3344/kjp.2018.31.2.87