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Value of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients With Painful Lumbar Spinal Stenosis (LSS) Undergoing Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injections
The Clinical Journal of Pain, 08/30/07

Kapural, L., et al. - Purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings, pain scores, and opiates use in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) undergoing lumbar epidural steroid (LES) injections by retrospective review of 719 patients' electronic medical records...The improvement in VAS pain scores after LES injections correlated well with the changes in the SPI except in those patients classified on MRI as severe LSS and more than 3 lumbar levels affected. That patient group is unlikely to benefit from LES injections

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