Prolonged facial hypesthesia resulting from greater occipital nerve block

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 362-365

  Kinney, Michelle A O ^a   Wilson, Jack L ^a   Carmichael, Stephen W ^a   De Ruyter, Martin L ^a   Fulgham, Jimmy R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Greater occipital nerve; Headache; Hypesthesia; Nerve block; Trigeminal nuclei

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY POSTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERESTHESIA; HYPESTHESIA; LUNG RESECTION; NERVE BLOCK; OCCIPITAL NERVE; PAIN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL NERVE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CLUSTER HEADACHE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PNEUMONECTOMY; TRIAMCINOLONE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0037635383     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.10103     Document Type: Article

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