INJECTIONS INTO THE BACK
Abstract
To the Editor:—
In The Journal, Aug. 8, page 1768, Schneider and associates reported a tragic case in which material injected into the back in an effort to relieve low back pain had entered the spinal canal and resulted in serious involvement of the nervous system and death. It may be thought that this is a unique occurrence, and for that reason I should like to call attention to the fact that other instances of this kind have occurred.
In 1957 we...