Fluoroscopy-Guided Erector Spinae Plane Block Reduces Early Postoperative Pain Following Lumbar Fusion: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Global Spine J · 2026 · PMC12413989 · PMID 40913781

Europe PMC DOI

hedged sentence

—

closest p

—

boldest claim

The sentences

did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

An exploratory finding in our study was that ESPB’s efficacy appeared to decline with increasing number of fused levels, though this trend did not reach statistical significance.

also in 111,027 other papers

Quoted from the open-access full text in Europe PMC under the licence the publisher applied. The sentence is reproduced exactly as published; the emphasis is ours.