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Does obesity have an impact on the radiation exposure during lumbosacral transforaminal epidural steroid injections? Retrospective study

Savas Sencan, Esra Giray, Firat Ulutatar, Osman Hakan Gunduz.




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Aim: To find out whether obesity or injection level have an impact on the amount of radiation exposure during fluoroscopy-guided lumbosacral transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TFESIs).
Material and Methods: Patients aged 19-65 years who underwent lumbosacral transforaminal epidural steroid injection were retrospectively reviewed. Eighty-three patients with a mean age of 42.7±13.2 (19-65) years with signs and symptoms of unilateral lumbar radicular pain due to single level disc herniation were included. Subjects were categorized as normal weighted (18.5≤body mass index (BMI) ≤ 24.9), overweighed (25≤BMI0.05). The radiation dosages and procedure durations between the two different injection levels (L5 and S1) were not found to be statistically significant (>0.05).
Conclusion: Obesity is associated with increased radiation exposure independent of procedure duration and the injection level.

Key words: Body mass index; epidural injection; fluoroscopy; procedure time; kerma-area product






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