BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Flat panel catheter angiotomography performed during
the selective injection of intersegmental arteries offers a multiplanar assessment of the …

Objective. Reports of catastrophic neurologic injuries following lumbar transforaminal
epidural steroid injections are rare but serious potential complications. The traditional …

Background Transforaminal epidural steroid injection (TFESI) is a widely utilized
interventional pain technique for radicular pain. Although the six o'clock position of the …

Objectives Evaluate the prevalence of an anomalous posterior vertebral artery (VA) in the
neural foramen and to see if any factors might correlate with proximity of the VA to needle …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to review the anatomy of the lumbar neural
foramen and to describe techniques of transforaminal epidural steroid injections with …

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to better characterize the intraforaminal location of
the great anterior radiculomedullary artery (artery of Adamkiewicz [AKA]) within the neural …

Background: Recent articles have detailed the adverse events associated with
transforaminal steroid injections into the radicular arteries. Guidelines on strict …

In this retrospective work based on a series of spinal angiograms performed in the
Neuroradiology Department of the Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, we studied the number of …

Introduction Determining safer techniques for lumbar injections is an important goal in pain
medicine. This study aims to characterize the location of the T10–L5 spinal arteries using CT …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Vascular penetration and injection of corticosteroids into a
vessel during lumbosacral transforaminal epidural injection is a suspected cause of …