TY - BOOK AU - Mostafa Ali Doha AU - Khaled Shohayeb , AU - Mohammed Abdelraoof , AU - Talaat Elhadidi , TI - Comparative study between caudal and lumbar epidural steroid injection in low back pain and lumbar radiculopathy : : Short term follow up / PY - 2015/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mostafa Ali Doha , KW - Caudal KW - Low back pain KW - Lumbar epidural steroid injection N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Orthopedic Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - If the condition not improved by medical treatment, epidural steroid injection have a role to reduce pain and improve disability by decrease inflammatory process at the nerve root caused by herniated disc. Different types of epidural steroid injection are present according to the rout of needle entry to reach to epidural space. There are three types of ESI which are 1 caudal, 2 lumbar interlaminar and 3 transformaminal. In this study we evaluate and compare the clinical improvement of cases treated by caudal and lumbar interlaminar ESI. Clinical improvement represented by pain reduction and improvement of disability after 4 weeks of ESI which obtained by visual analog scale and oswestry disability index score UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -