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Epidural Corticosteroid Injection
- Indications
- Lumbar Disc Disease with acute radicular pain
- Efficacy
- Only 6 of 12 controlled trials since 1950 found benefit
- Study (n=158 herniated disc with sciatica)
- Methylprednisolone 80 mg in 8 ml of normal saline
- Steroid group had only short-term improvement
- References