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. 2000 Mar;24(1):40–42. doi: 10.1007/s002640050010

Local anaesthetic injection with and without corticosteroids for subacromial impingement syndrome

C Plafki 1, R Steffen 1, R E Willburger 2, R H Wittenberg 2
PMCID: PMC3619854  PMID: 10774861

Abstract 

Fifty patients with impingement syndrome refractory to long-term conservative treatment were randomized to three treatment groups. All patients received an injection of 10 ml 0.5% bupivacaine, in group 1 without corticosteroid, in group 2 with crystalline corticosteroid and in group 3 with lipoid corticosteroid. Treatment in group 1 had to be stopped because of inefficacy. In groups 2 and 3 favorable results were achieved in 19 out of 40 patients.

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Accepted: 6 January 2000


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