Mandibular nerve blocks for the removal of dentures during trismus caused by tetanus

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 282-283

  Meaudre, Eric ^a   Pernod, Georges ^a   Gaillard, Pierre Emmanuel ^a   Kaiser, Eric ^a   Cantais, Emmanuel ^a   Ripart, Jacques ^b   Palmier, Bruno ^a  

^a Military Teaching Hospital Sainte Anne   (France)

^b NÎMES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMATETANOS; MEPIVACAINE; TETANUS ANTIBODY; TETANUS TOXOID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DEBRIDEMENT; DIPLOPIA; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACERATION; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MANDIBULAR NERVE BLOCK; MASSETER MUSCLE; MUSCLE SPASM; NERVE BLOCK; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; STRABISMUS; SYMPTOM; TETANUS; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; TRISMUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENTURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NERVE BLOCK; TETANUS; TONGUE; TRISMUS;

EID: 20744448511     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000153501.96734.3F     Document Type: Article

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