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Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Epidural steroid injections
Epidural
The term epidural is often short for epidural analgesia, a form of regional analgesia involving injection of drugs through a catheter placed into the epidural space. The injection can cause both a loss of sensation and a loss of pain, by blocking the transmission of signals through nerves in or near the spinal cord. The epidural space is the space inside the bony spinal canal but outside the membrane called the dura mater (sometimes called the "dura"). In contact with the inner surface of the dura is another membrane called the arachnoid mater ("arachnoid")...
Epidural steroid injections - List of case studies
- Back Pain with Partial Sensory Leg Anesthesia
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on this patient . Conservative treatment can also include epidural steroid injections. 5. There is a wide range of complications following ...
- Low back pain due to spondylosis and degenerative disc disease
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a. The patient may benefit from a trial of lumbar epidural steroid injections . If these provide sufficient pain control not exceeding ...
- Treatments
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Entero-enteric bypass surgery Enterostomy Epidural anesthesia Epidural steroid injections Epidural treatment Eradication of the irritative ...
- Drugs
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Enemas Enoxaparin Enoxaparin sodium Epidural Epidural steroid injection Epinephrine Epirubicin Epogen Epogen) ...