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Thermal QST Phenotypes Associated with Response to Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injections: A Pilot Study.
Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) - 1 Aug 2017
Maher Dermot P, Ding Weihua, Singh Sarabdeep, Opalacz Arissa, Fishman Claire, Houghton Mary, Ahmed Shihab, Chen Lucy, Mao Jianren, Zhang Yi
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OBJECTIVE: Response to lumbar epidural steroid injection in lumbar radicular pain varies. The purpose of this study is to characterize the changes in quantitative sensory testing (QST) phenotypes of subjects and compare the QST characteristics in patients who do respond to treatment of radicular pain with a lumbar epidural steroid injection (ESI). DESIGN: Prospective, observational pilot study. SETTING:...
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