Intraspinal Steroids: History, Efficacy, Accidentality, and Controversy with Review of United States Food and Drug Administration Reports

Overview

Journal J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry

Publisher BMJ Publishing Group

Specialties Neurology
Neurosurgery
Psychiatry

Date 2001 Mar 20

PMID 11254764

Citations 21

Authors

D A Nelson

W M Landau

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