Demonstration of the Spread of Injectate With Deep Cervical Plexus Block: A Case Series

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 116-119

  Dhonneur, Gilles ^a   Saidi, Nor Edine ^b   Merle, Jean Claude ^b   Asfazadourian, Hugues ^c   Ndoko, Serge K ^a   Bloc, Sébastien ^c  

^a Jean Verdier   (France)

^b Departments of Anesthesia   (France)

^c Claude Galien   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; IOPAMIDOL; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SCINTISCANNING; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; IOPAMIDOL; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847629958     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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