A microscopic analysis of cut-bevel versus pencil-point spinal needles

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1101-1104

  Parker, Robert K ^b   White, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; NEEDLES;

EID: 0030735247     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199711000-00025     Document Type: Article

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