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Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery, vol.33, no.3, pp.113-116, 2022 (Scopus)
Objective: Evaluating the articles with the highest citations provides the authors with more detailed information about transforaminal injection, and we think that it will contribute to the production of high-quality articles in their future studies. Materials and Methods: In between February-March 2022, Web of Science (WOS) was used as the data search source. Journals from 1900 to 2022 were searched in the database. The following keywords were used in related “Topic” searches: Nerve root injection, root injection, transforaminal injection, transforaminal epidural injection, selective nerve root block, root block. WOS citations, year of publication, country of origin and content of article were evaluated. Results: The total number of citations of the Top 50 articles was 5817 and the average number of citations was 118.7. Of the Top 50 articles, 24 refer to lumbar transforaminal injection, 22 to cervical transforaminal injection, and 4 to cervical and lumbar transforaminal injection. It was seen that the articles that received the Top 50 citations were most frequently produced by the anesthesia department, and the second most frequently produced by the orthopedics and neuroscience department. Fourthy percent (n=20) of the articles were about complications such as intraarticular injection, spinal cord infarction, paralysis, paraplegia, and death that developed after transforaminal injection. Conclusion: In our study, the first 50 most cited articles about transforaminal injections were evaluated and a resource was tried to be created by including detailed information. Our work will help readers benefit from the most influential and important articles out of hundreds of articles.