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A member asked:
Radiologist: a fluoroscopy for epidural spinal injections for back pain (l5-s1). it's about the same radiation exposure for me as one chest x-ray ?
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Not Exactly True: Depends on how long the procedure takes. Typically most epidural injections take about 15-20 sec of fluoroscopy time, that is in order of 10x less than typical chest x-ray. Now if injection takes longer than one minute (60 sec) of fluoroscopy time than you will be close for exposure. That's a lot of flouro for this injection!
Answered 3/18/2014
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