Distance between the skin and the thoracic paravertebral space

Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 680-684

  Naja, M Zouheir ^a   Gustafsson, A C ^b   Ziade, M F ^c   El Rajab, M ^a   Al Tannir, M ^a   Daher, M ^d   Lonnqvist P A ^b  

^a MAKASSED GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Lebanon)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^d SAINT GEORGE HOSPITAL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPHEDRINE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PNEUMOTHORAX; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOCENTESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERCOSTAL NERVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; SKIN; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 21344451460     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04232.x     Document Type: Article

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