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Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury After Cervical Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections

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Epidural steroid injections are widely used as a medical intervention for the treatment of radicular pain from disc herniation. Iatrogenic spinal cord injuries after epidural steroid injections are rare, but catastrophic and devastating events have been reported in the literature. Clinical precautions should be implemented to identify individuals who are at high risk for neurologic injury, and measures should be taken to improve patient safety.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., M.C. 4028, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Bradley Silva M.D. & Dalia Elmofty M.D.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Magdalena Anitescu

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Honorio T. Benzon

  3. Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA

    Mark S. Wallace

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Silva, B., Elmofty, D. (2018). Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury After Cervical Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections. In: Anitescu, M., Benzon, H., Wallace, M. (eds) Challenging Cases and Complication Management in Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60072-7_11

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