Clinical evaluation of transforaminal epidural steroid injection in patients with gadolinium enhancing spinal nerves associated with disc herniation.

Abstract

The improvement of NRS and ODI in the enhanced group was significantly greater than those of the non-enhanced group after TFESI. Radicular pain and functional impairment in the presence of gadolinium enhancing spinal neural structures and lumbar disc herniation may be more responsive to TFESI than patients without enhancing neural structures.