Herpes zoster: are selective nerve root injections the treatment or the cause?

Pain Physician. 2010 Mar-Apr;13(2):196-8; author reply 198.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Causality
  • Female
  • Herpes Zoster / chemically induced*
  • Herpes Zoster / drug therapy
  • Herpes Zoster / pathology
  • Humans
  • Iatrogenic Disease / prevention & control
  • Immunosuppression Therapy / adverse effects*
  • Injections, Epidural / adverse effects
  • Intervertebral Disc Displacement / complications
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / pathology
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / surgery
  • Radiography
  • Risk Assessment
  • Secondary Prevention
  • Spinal Nerve Roots / diagnostic imaging
  • Spinal Nerve Roots / drug effects*
  • Spinal Nerve Roots / pathology
  • Spinal Stenosis / complications
  • Spinal Stenosis / pathology
  • Spinal Stenosis / physiopathology
  • Spondylosis / complications
  • Spondylosis / pathology
  • Spondylosis / physiopathology
  • Steroids / adverse effects*

Substances

  • Steroids