Inadvertent femoral nerve impalement and intraneural injection visualized by ultrasound [11]

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 627-628

  Schafhalter Zoppoth, Ingeborg ^a   Zeitz, Ivan D ^a   Gray, Andrew T ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOBUPIVACAINE; MEPIVACAINE;

CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LETTER; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 3242772831     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000130913.31395.40     Document Type: Letter

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