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. 2022 Feb 2;1(1):100013.
doi: 10.1016/j.inpm.2022.100013. eCollection 2022 Mar.

Treatment of refractory greater trochanteric pain syndrome with cooled radiofrequency ablation

Tina Vajdi  1 , Tiffany Pouldar  1 , Mary A Vijjeswarapu  1 , Howard Rosner  1
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Treatment of refractory greater trochanteric pain syndrome with cooled radiofrequency ablation

Tina Vajdi et al. Interv Pain Med. .
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Fig. 1
Fluoroscopically guided bilateral trochanteric bursa injection with contrast. A. Left-sided injection. B. Right-sided injection.
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Fig. 2
Diagram of the sensory innervation to the greater trochanter. The femoral nerve branch (green) enters the periosteum of the greater trochanter just caudal to the inferior gemellus muscle (yellow). (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)
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Fig. 3
Fluoroscopically guided peripheral nerve blocks of the bilateral sensory nerves that innervate the trochanteric bursa. A. Left-sided injection. B. Right-sided injection.
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Fig. 4
Fluoroscopically guided cooled radiofrequency ablations. A. Left-sided RFA. B. Right-sided RFA.
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