Regional anesthesia, intraneural injection, and nerve injury: Beyond the epineurium

Anesthesiology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 647-648

  Borgeat, Alain ^a  

^a ORTHOPEDIC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BALGRIST   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CONVALESCENCE; DYSESTHESIA; EDITORIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARESTHESIA; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; DOGS; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURONS; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

EID: 33749163390     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200610000-00005     Document Type: Editorial

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