Open AccessDetection of Intravascular Injection During Lumbar Medial Branch Blocks: A Comparison of Aspiration, Live Fluoroscopy, and Digital Subtraction Technology
Author(s) -
David J. Kennedy,
Ryan Mattie,
Alan Scott Hamilton,
Bryan P. Conrad,
Matthew Smuck
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnv073
Subject(s) - fluoroscopy , medicine , subtraction , radiology , vascular access , nuclear medicine , surgery , hemodialysis , mathematics , arithmetic
Medial branch blocks may have unrecognized vascular uptake potentially resulting in false- negative results.
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