Block of the Ganglion Impar Using a Coccygeal Joint Approach

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 583-584

  Hong, Ji Hee ^a   Jang, Hyun Sug ^a  

^a Keimyung University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ANALGESIA; COCCYGEAL BONE; FLUOROSCOPY; GANGLION IMPAR BLOCK; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; INJECTION SITE DISCOMFORT; LETTER; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; OSSIFICATION; PAIN; PERIANAL PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SCROTAL PAIN;

AGED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; JOINTS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; PAIN; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33751321402     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2006.09.001     Document Type: Letter

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