• Medical ultrasonography · Mar 2011

    Ultrasound-guided injections in the lumbar spine.

    • Alexander Loizides, Siegfried Peer, Michaela Plaikner, Verena Spiss, Klaus Galiano, Jochen Obernauer, and Hannes Gruber.
    • Department of Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. alexander.loizides@i-med.ac.at
    • Med Ultrason. 2011 Mar 1;13(1):54-8.

    AbstractInjection therapies play a major role in the treatment of low back pain and radiculopathy and are becoming integral parts of a multidisciplinary approach in treatment and rehabilitation of patients with pain. Pararadicular- and facet-joint injections in the lumbar spine are preferentially performed with computed tomography (CT) or fluoroscopy-guidance. In this paper we present an alternative, simple and easy to learn US-guided technique for injection therapy in the lumbar spine.

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