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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Mar 2002
Case ReportsForaminal injection of a painful sacral nerve root using an epidural catheter: case report.
- Robert Friedman, Victor Li, Deepak Mehrotra, Yusuf Mosuro, and Gary Atkinson.
- Department of Anesthesiology, Temple University Hospital, 3901 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA. friedmr@tuhs.temple.edu
- Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2002 Mar 1; 27 (2): 214-6.
Background And ObjectivesNerve root pain has been treated with steroid injections since the 1970s. We will describe a novel method for nerve root injection using a directed epidural catheter.Case ReportA case is described where catheter placement accurately reproduced symptoms which were then relieved with local anesthetic and steroid.ConclusionThis is a novel approach to treatment of painful nerve roots with a catheter.
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