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Caudal Epidural Injection

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Caudal epidural injections have been used in medicine for many years and extensively in pediatrics, obstetrics, and interventional pain medicine. Pain management physicians typically inject local anesthetics with or without corticosteroids in the caudal epidural space to treat pain from spinal stenosis, failed back surgery syndrome, lumbar radiculopathy, and other etiologies of low back pain. The caudal approach to the epidural space offers several advantages compared to other epidural injections. It is considered safer, can be performed with or without fluoroscopy, and is an excellent approach for patients who have undergone previous back surgeries.

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  1. Integris Pain Management, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

    Atul A. Walia

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Baylor Scott and White Health, Temple, TX, USA

    Hiep Tran & Dan DuBose

  3. Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Killeen, TX, USA

    Hiep Tran

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  1. The Spine and Nerve Center of the Virginias, Charleston, WV, USA

    Timothy R. Deer

  2. Evolve Restorative Center, Santa Rosa, CA, USA

    Jason E. Pope

  3. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Tim J. Lamer

  4. Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care, Sewickley, PA, USA

    David Provenzano

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Walia, A.A., Tran, H., DuBose, D. (2019). Caudal Epidural Injection. In: Deer, T., Pope, J., Lamer, T., Provenzano, D. (eds) Deer's Treatment of Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12281-2_55

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