Ultrasound Guided Technique for the Caudal Epidural Injection
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Received September 16, 2015. Accepted September 30, 2015. Correspondence to: Dae Hyun Jo Pain Center, Daejeon St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, 685 Gasuwon-dong, Seo-gu, Daejeon 34943, Korea Tel: +82-42-220-9040, Fax: +82-42-600-6963, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright c The Korean Pain Society, 2015 LETTERS TO EDITORS
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