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Case Reports
. 2018 Jul 25;4(7):640-644.
doi: 10.1016/j.jdcr.2018.03.025. eCollection 2018 Aug.

Brachioradial pruritus treated with computed tomography-guided cervical nerve root block: A case series

Brent D Weinberg  1 , Matthew Amans  2 , Sibel Deviren  3 , Timothy Berger  4 , Vinil Shah  2
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Brachioradial pruritus treated with computed tomography-guided cervical nerve root block: A case series

Brent D Weinberg et al. JAAD Case Rep. .
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Fig 1
Schematic of sensory dermatomes and sensory nerves of the upper extremity. The regions most commonly affected in brachioradial pruritus are shaded.
Fig 2
Fig 2
Magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography procedural images from a 57-year-old woman with brachioradial pruritus (patient 3). Magnetic resonance imaging through the C4-C5 (A) and C5-C6 (B) neural foramina showing severe bilateral narrowing at both levels (white arrows). Intraprocedural images from her first treatment show the injection along the bilateral C5 (C) and C6 exiting nerve roots (D). Injected steroid and anesthetic mixture is seen flowing into the neural foramina bilaterally at each injection site (black arrows).
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