Epiduroscopy: the missing link connecting diagnosis and treatment?

Psychological Therapies: The Missing Link in Improving Treatment Adherence in Patients with β-thalassemia Major

One-year results of an algorithmic approach to managing failed back surgery syndrome

BACKGROUND Failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) is a major clinical problem. Different etiologies with different incidence rates have been proposed. There are currently no standards regarding the management of these patients. Epiduroscopy is an endoscopic technique that may play a role in the management of FBSS. OBJECTIVE To evaluate an algorithm for management of severe FBSS including epiduro...

Surgical radio-frequency epiduroscopy technique (R-ResAblator) and FBSS treatment: preliminary evaluations.

UNLABELLED Failed back surgery syndrome represents a heterogeneous situation that suggests a fibrosis or neuroinflammatory genesis. The social cost related to this issue are enormous. Several surgical techniques have been applied to FBSS patients with controversial effectiveness. In 1998 we evaluated the efficiency and limits of epiduroscopy treatment; it proved to be effective in 75% of cases,...

Lumbosacral epiduroscopy complicated by intravascular injection.

INTRAVASCULAR injection, either intraarterial or intravenous, is an undesired event that can occur during attempted epidural injections through needles and catheters. When it occurs, it is attributed to entry of the needle or catheter into a blood vessel. There are no reports in the literature of this being observed during epiduroscopy. We report two cases of intravascular appearance of radiopa...

Epiduroscopy as a Diagnostic Tool for the Lower Back Pain and/or Leg Pain

Received June 17, 2016. Revised June 18, 2016. Accepted June 20, 2016. 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: +82-42-242-3500, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Comm...