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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 25, 218-225, Copyright © 1978 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Management of Chronic Dorsal Root Pain with Epidural Steroid

JAMES B. FORREST M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D., F.F.A.R.C.S.1

1 Anaesthesia and Medicine, McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4J9

Twenty-eight patients presenting with typical dorsal root pain of more than six months' duration were given a series of three epidural injections of methylprednisolone acetate. The patients were grouped according to known aetiologic factors. Improvement in symptoms was most marked in the post-herpetic group where 86 per cent were free of pain after six months. In the post-trauma/surgicai group, 50 per cent of patients were free of pain after six months, while in the idiopathic group only minimal improvement occurred. The side-effects of steroid administration into the epidural space were in all cases minor.






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