Is regional anesthesia simply an exercise in applied sonoanatomy? Aiming at higher frequencies of ultrasonographic imaging

Anesthesiology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 250-251

  Greher, Manfred ^a   Kapral, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CADAVER; CELIAC PLEXUS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; EXPERIENCE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SONOANATOMY; STELLATE GANGLION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

EID: 0042845921     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200308000-00004     Document Type: Editorial

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