Safety of Epidural Steroid Injection Methods in the Management of Recurrent Lumbar Disc Herniation: Few Comments
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Copyright C 2015 by Korean Society of Spine Surgery This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Asian Spine Journal • pISSN 1976-1902 eISSN 1976-7846 • www.asianspinejournal.org Received Dec 11, 2014; Accepted Dec 12, 2014 Corresponding author: Mohamed Amin Ghobadifar Zoonoses Research Center, Medicine School, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Motahari Avenue, Jahrom, Iran Post code: 193 Tel: +98-936-620-8078, Fax: +98-711-636-13-86, Email: [email protected] Safety of Epidural Steroid Injection Methods in the Management of Recurrent Lumbar Disc Herniation: Few Comments
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