An Anatomic Study of the Sacral Hiatus: A Basis for Successful Caudal Epidural Block

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-54

  Sekiguchi, Miho ^a   Yabuki, Shoji ^a   Satoh, Koichiro ^a   Kikuchi, Shinichi ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caudal epidural block; Sacral hiatus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BONE; CADAVER; CAUDAL ANESTHESIA; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INJECTION; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SACRUM; SACRUM HIATUS; SPINE DISEASE; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, CAUDAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; SACRUM; SPINAL CANAL;

EID: 0346335946     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002508-200401000-00010     Document Type: Article

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