TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mohamed Shehata Mohamed Nassar
AU  - Inas Kamel Ahmed , 
AU  - Maged Salah , 
AU  - Mohamed Abdel Raoof Nasr , 
TI  - Transforaminal lumbosacral epidural injection in low back pain and failed back surgery syndrome : : Efficacy of sharp needle versus blunt needle and incidence of vascular spread / 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Mohamed Shehata Mohamed Nassar , 
KW  - Blunt needle
KW  - Low back pain
KW  - Sharp needle
N1  - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Anesthesia; Issued also as CD
N2  - Transforaminal lumbosacral epidural injection was used in low back pain targeting anterior epidural space and nerve roots.  Objectives: to compare incidence of vascular spread and degree of local pain between sharp and blunt needle.  Methods: eighty patients underwent transforaminal lumbosacral epidural steroid injection in four groups each one is 20 patients. Incidence and severity of vascular spread under fluoroscopy and degree of local pain were recorded. Conclusion: incidence of vascular spread was less in sacral group using the blunt needle. Blunt needle increase local pain during the procedure
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