Nerve blocks at the wrist for carpal tunnel release revisited: The use of sensory-nerve and motor-nerve stimulation techniques

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 536-540

  Macaire, Philippe ^b   Choquet, Olivier ^b   Jochum, Denis ^b   Travers, Vincent ^b   Capdevila, Xavier ^a  

^a LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Median nerve block; Sensory nerve stimulation; Wrist

Indexed keywords

MEPIVACAINE;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION; ULNAR NERVE;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MEPIVACAINE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PARESTHESIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST;

EID: 28644431892     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2005.06.010     Document Type: Article

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