A Case of Inadvertent Intradiscal Injection Occurring at an Adjacent Segment During a Properly Performed Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection.

Am J Phys Med Rehabil

From the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee (PCY, LEM); Department of Medicine, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, UP Campus, Marquette, Michigan (EPS, BJS); and Upper Peninsula Rehabilitation Medicine Associates, Marquette, Michigan (EPS).

Published: December 2022

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