Cervical radicular pain: the role of interlaminar and transforaminal epidural injections.
Curr Pain Headache Rep
; 18(1): 389, 2014 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
Chronic neck pain and cervical radicular pain are relatively common in the adult population. Treatment for chronic radicular pain recalcitrant to conservative management includes surgical management as well as interventional techniques with epidural injections utilizing either an interlaminar approach or transforaminal approach. Although there have been multiple systematic reviews and randomized clinical trials of cervical interlaminar epidural injections, the literature is sparse in reference to cervical transforaminal epidural injections. Overall, there is good evidence for the effectiveness of cervical interlaminar epidural injections in managing cervical disc herniation and fair evidence in managing central spinal stenosis and postsurgery syndrome. The evidence is poor, however, for cervical transforaminal epidural injections. Complications with cervical interlaminar epidural injections are rare, but more commonly occur with transforaminal epidural injections and can be fatal. Emerging concepts in pain include further randomized trials; proper placebo design; focus on control design (either active control or placebo control); and appropriate methodologic quality assessment and evidence synthesis.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Radiculopatía
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Vértebras Cervicales
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Dolor de Cuello
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Degeneración del Disco Intervertebral
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Dolor Crónico
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Bloqueo Nervioso
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
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Etiology_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Curr Pain Headache Rep
Asunto de la revista:
FISIOLOGIA
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NEUROLOGIA
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PSICOFISIOLOGIA
Año:
2014
Tipo del documento:
Article