Intraarticular facet block: diagnostic test or therapeutic procedure?
- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 151 (2) , 333-336
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.151.2.6709900
Abstract
The specificity of the intraarticular facet block as a diagnostic test for facet joint disease is currently unknown. Capsular rupture with epidural and periarticular diffusion is probably responsible for many false positive findings. A comparatively low success rate of the procedure was found in 25 patients in whom maximal volumes were strictly controlled to avoid extravasation.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: