Failed spinal anaesthesia: Cause identified by MRI

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1072-1075

  Hirabayashi, Yoshihiro ^a   Fukuda, Hirokazu ^a   Saitoh, Kazuhiko ^a   Inoue, Soichiro ^a   Mitsuhata, Hiromasa ^a   Shimizu, Reiju ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

anaesthetic techniques: spinal; measurement techniques: magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

TETRACAINE;

ADULT; ANATOMY; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM FISTULA; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0029794049     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03011913     Document Type: Article

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