Computed tomography-enhanced sphenopalatine ganglion blockade

Pain Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-46

  Vallejo, Ricardo ^a,b   Benyamin, Ramsin ^a,c   Yousuf, Naveed ^d   Kramer, Jeffery ^a,b,c  

^a MILLENNIUM PAIN CENTER   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^d Bloomington Radiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; GANGLION BLOCK; HUMAN; NEURALGIA; NEUROLYSIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SUPINE POSITION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; NEURALGIA; SPHENOID SINUS; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846957364     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2007.00110.x     Document Type: Article

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