Comment on the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Hyaluronidase in the Selective Nerve Root Block of Radiculopathy

Affiliations

¹ Pain Management Center of Paducah, Paducah, KY, USA. ; Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
² Department of Anesthesia, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Laxmaiah Manchikanti et al. Asian Spine J. 2015 Dec.

. 2015 Dec;9(6):995-6.

doi: 10.4184/asj.2015.9.6.995. Epub 2015 Dec 8.

¹ Pain Management Center of Paducah, Paducah, KY, USA. ; Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
² Department of Anesthesia, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

An evaluation of the effectiveness of hyaluronidase in the selective nerve root block of radiculopathy: a double blind, controlled clinical trial.
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