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New sciatica findings from F.E. Sayegh and co-authors described

Published in Drug Week, August 7th, 2009

"Prospective, double-blind, randomized, case-control study. To evaluate the efficacy of caudal epidural injections (CEI) containing steroid versus nonsteroid preparations when treating patients suffering from low back pain (LBP) and sciatica," scientists in Thessaloniki, Greece report.

"Literature seems to be deprived of well-designed randomized, controlled studies that evaluate the effectiveness of CEI in the treatment of chronic LBP; hence the value of CEI remains still the subject of controversy. suffering from severe chronic LBP and sciatica were randomly allocated into 2 groups. Steroid-group's patients (n = 93) underwent CEI containing 12 mL of xylocaine 2% and 1...

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