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Therapeutic Trial of Fluoroscopic Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injection for Axial Low Back Pain: Effectiveness and Outcome Predictors
  
    	
J.W. Lee, H.I. Shin, S.Y. Park, G.Y. Lee and H.S. Kang

  
    	
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