%0 Journal Article
%T Neck movement during cervical transforaminal epidural injections and the position of the vertebral artery: an anatomical study
%A Emre Yilmaz
%A Jacob Peacock
%A Joe Iwanaga
%A Juan Altafulla
%A R Shane Tubbs
%A Stefan Lachkar
%A Zachary Litvack
%J Archive of "Acta Radiologica Open".
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2058460119834688
%X Cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injections (CTFESIs) are sometimes performed in patients with cervical radiculopathy secondary to nerve-root compression. Neck movements for patient positioning may include rotation, flexion, and extension. As physicians performing such procedures do not move the neck for fear of injuring the vertebral artery, we performed fluoroscopy and cadaveric dissection to analyze any movement of the vertebral artery during head movement and its relation to the foramina in the setting of CTFESI
%K Epidural injection
%K cervicalgia
%K vertebral artery
%K neck rotation
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415478/