Epidural steroids: a comprehensive, evidence-based review

SP Cohen, MC Bicket, D Jamison… - Regional Anesthesia & …, 2013 - rapm.bmj.com
Epidural steroid injections (ESIs) are the most widely utilized pain management procedure
in the world, their use supported by more than 45 placebo-controlled studies and dozens of …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of therapeutic lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injections in managing lumbar spinal pain

L Manchikanti, RM Buenaventura… - Database of Abstracts …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The authors stated there was good evidence for transforaminal epidural injections for
chronic low back and lower extremity pain caused by disc herniation with radiculitis; the …

The effectiveness of lumbar transforaminal injection of steroids: a comprehensive review with systematic analysis of the published data

J MacVicar, W King, MH Landers, N Bogduk - Pain Medicine, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Objective To determine the effectiveness of lumbar transforaminal injection of steroids in the
treatment of radicular pain. Design Comprehensive review of the literature with systematic …

[PDF][PDF] Needle position analysis in cases of paralysis from transforaminal epidurals: consider alternative approaches to traditional technique

S Atluri, SE Glaser, RV Shah… - Pain …, 2013 - painphysicianjournal.com
Background: Transforaminal technique for epidural steroid injections, unlike other
approaches, is uniquely associated with permanent, bilateral, lower extremity paralysis …

[PDF][PDF] Correlation between epidurographic contrast flow patterns and clinical effectiveness in chronic lumbar discogenic radicular pain treated with epidural steroid …

R Gupta, S Singh, S Kaur, K Singh… - The Korean journal of …, 2014 - synapse.koreamed.org
Background: Epidural steroid injections are an accepted procedure for the conservative
management of chronic backache caused by lumbar disc pathology. The purpose of this …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of transforaminal and parasagittal epidural steroid injections in patients with radicular low back pain

SM Hashemi, MR Aryani, S Momenzadeh… - … and pain medicine, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Epidural steroid injection (ESI), including transforaminal (TF) epidural
injections and interlaminar (IL) epidural steroid injections are commonly performed …

Pro-Con Debate: Superior Versus Inferior Triangle Needle Placement in Transforaminal Epidural Injections

TL Doshi, AM Engle, AJ Przybysz… - Anesthesia & …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Although transforaminal epidural injections have long been used for radicular pain, there is
no universal standard injection approach to the neural foramen. The intervertebral foramen …

Epidural steroids for spinal pain and radiculopathy: a narrative, evidence-based review

I Wilkinson, SP Cohen - Current Opinion in Anesthesiology, 2013 - journals.lww.com
The cost-effectiveness of ESI is the subject of great debate, and similar to efficacy, the
conclusions one draws appear to be influenced by specialty. Because of the wide disparities …

CT Fluoroscopy–Guided Blood Patching of Ventral CSF Leaks by Direct Needle Placement in the Ventral Epidural Space Using a Transforaminal Approach

TJ Amrhein, NT Befera, L Gray… - American Journal of …, 2016 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Epidural blood patch treatment of spontaneous
intracranial hypotension arising from ventral CSF leaks can be difficult secondary to …

Effect of needle tip position on contrast media dispersion pattern in transforaminal epidural injection using Kambin's triangle approach

J Lee, D Jo, S Song, D Park, D Kim… - Journal of Pain Research, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Dispersion of contrast media into the anterior epidural space is correlated with
better outcomes after transforaminal epidural injection (TFEI). Needle tip position is an …