ArticleEuropean radiology2013
MR-based outcome predictors of lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injection for lumbar radiculopathy caused by herniated intervertebral disc.
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- Ten Years of Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections in a Tertiary Referral Center: Trends in Clinical Indications and Outcomes.Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2026Article
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- Prognostic factors of selective nerve root block under fluoroscopic guidance for the treatment of young patients with lumbar disc herniation and its role in preventing surgery.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Observational
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- Using Key Predictors in an SVM Model for Differentiating Spinal Fractures and Herniated Intervertebral Discs in Preoperative Anesthesia Evaluation.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Interlaminar versus transforaminal epidural steroid injections: a review of efficacy and safety.Skeletal radiology · 2023Review
- Factors associated with treatment success after combined transforaminal epidural steroid injection and dorsal root ganglion pulsed radiofrequency treatment in patients with chronic lumbar radicular pain.Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2022Article
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- Spinal nerve signal intensity on Dixon T2-weighted water-only sequence: an important outcome predictor after lumbar transforaminal epidural injection.European radiology · 2021Article
- Predictive factors for treatment success of transforaminal epidural steroid injection in lumbar disc herniation-induced sciaticaTurkish journal of medical sciences · 2020Article
- Clinical and imaging characteristics of patients with extreme low back pain or sciatica referred for spinal injection.Neuroradiology · 2019Article
- Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Severity by CT or MRI Does Not Predict Response to Epidural Corticosteroid versus Lidocaine Injections.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2019Article
- Relationship of specific MRI findings to treatment outcomes in patients receiving transforaminal epidural steroid injections.Skeletal radiology · 2016Article
- Does Electrodiagnostic Confirmation of Radiculopathy Predict Pain Reduction after Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection? A Multicenter Study.Journal of nature and science · 2015Article
- Applicability of a newly developed bioassay for determining bioactivity of anti-inflammatory compounds in release studies--celecoxib and triamcinolone acetonide released from novel PLGA-based microspheres.Pharmaceutical research · 2015Article
- Role of transforaminal epidural injections or selective nerve root blocks in the management of lumbar radicular syndrome - A narrative, evidence-based review.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and traumaArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo evaluate the MR-based outcome predictors of lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injection (ESI) for lumbar radiculopathy caused by herniated intervertebral disc (HIVD).
methodsA total of 149 patients (male/female 75:74; mean age 51.5 years) with the very worst (87 patients) or the very best outcome (62 patients) after ESI were enrolled in this study. They were selected from 1,881 patients who underwent lumbar transforaminal ESI for lumbar radiculopathy caused by HIVD from January 2007 to December 2008. Two radiologists reviewed MR in consensus. Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test were used to evaluate the difference between the two groups.
resultsHIVD in the foraminal-extraforaminal zone were significantly more common in the very best outcome group (16/24, 66.6 %) than HIVD in the central-subarticular zone (46/125, 36.8 %) (P = 0.012). Other factors such as HIVD zone, T2-high signal, relation to nerve root, corner change, Modic change, disc height loss, grade of disc degeneration, and osteophyte were not statistically significant.
conclusionHIVD in the foraminal or extraforaminal zone is the only good MR-based outcome predictor of lumbar transforamial ESI for lumbar radiculopathy.
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