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Case Reports
. 2021 Jul;17(2):227-230.
doi: 10.1177/1556331621992312. Epub 2021 Feb 22.

Successful Treatment of Supraspinous and Interspinous Ligament Injury With Ultrasound-Guided Platelet-Rich Plasma Injection: Case Series

Andrew Creighton  1 , Roger A Sanguino  1 , Jennifer Cheng  1 , James F Wyss  1
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Case Reports

Successful Treatment of Supraspinous and Interspinous Ligament Injury With Ultrasound-Guided Platelet-Rich Plasma Injection: Case Series

Andrew Creighton et al. HSS J. 2021 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: interspinous ligament; lumbar spine; nonoperative treatments; platelet-rich plasma; supraspinous ligament; ultrasound.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Ultrasound of L4–L5 region using a high frequency linear transducer in short axis in Case 1. (a) Ultrasound-guided injection showing needle tip at the interspinous space of the L4–L5 vertebrae targeting the ISL. (b) Ultrasound-guided injection showing needle tip at the supraspinous ligament superior to the L5 vertebra.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Ultrasound of L1–L2 and L2–L3 region using a high frequency linear transducer in long axis in Case 2. (a) Ultrasound-guided injection showing needle tip at the interspinous space of L1–L2 targeting the ISL. (b) Ultrasound-guided injection showing needle tip at the interspinous space of L2–L3.
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