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To refer a patient
- To schedule an appointment, fax your order and appropriate lab work to: 312-926-7382
- Send relevant films/images with patient or via mail to:
Beth Candela, RN
Patient Care Coordinator
Phone: 312-926-3185
Fax: 312-926-7382
Email:
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Department of Radiology
676 North St Clair, Suite 1400
Chicago, IL 60611
Treatment options
We perform following interventions (listed with indications). If the treatment you are looking for is not listed, please contact us for more information.
- Blood patch
- Post lumbar puncture headache (spinal headache)
- Spontaneous intracranial hypotension
- Epidural steroid injection
- Localized back pain and lower extremity pain
- Facet injection
- Back pain localized to a specific facet joint
- Kyphoplasty
- Lumbar Drain
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Post-operative cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) leaks
- Lumbar puncture
- Psuedotumor cerebri
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Chemotherapy injections
- Percutaneous discectomy/Nucleoplasty
- Disc herniation with radiculopathy unresponsive to conservative therapy
- Radiofrequency ablation/rhizotomy
- Metastisis
- Osteoid osteoma
- Sacroiliac injection
- Unilateral pelvic/sacroiliac joint
- Sacroplasty
- Sacral insufficiency fracture unresponsive to conservative therapy
- Selective Nerve Root Block
- Radicular pain
- For diagnostic and therapeutic purposes
- Synovial cyst decompression/fenestration
- Symptomatic synovial cyst with radicular pain or spinal stenosis
- Trigger point injection
- Localized myofacial/soft tissue pain
- Vertebroplasty
- Painful osteoporotic or metastatic vertebral body compression fracture
- Prophylactic treatment for continued loss of height associated with compression fractures
- Recent compression fractures resulting in loss of height
Diagnostic services
- Neuroimaging Interpretations of the neck and spine
- Computerized Axial Tomography (CT)
- Computerized Tomographic Angiography (CTA)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA)
- Plain film radiography