Abstract:At our hospital, epiduroscopy is indicated for pain refractory to nerve block and pharmacotherapy, pain that is temporarily relieved by nerve root block, and adhesions demonstrated by sacral epidurography. In 23 patients who obtained sufficient abrasion during epiduroscopy, sacral epidurography was randomly performed between postoperative days 2 and 14. Re-adhesions began forming on postoperative day 3 in early patients and had occurred in approximately 30% of our patients by 2 weeks after surgery. However, th… Show more
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