Ultrasound-Guided and CT-Navigation-Assisted Periradicular and Facet Joint Injections in the Lumbar and Cervical Spine: A New Teaching Tool to Recognize the Sonoanatomic Pattern

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 254-257

  Galiano, Klaus ^a   Obwegeser, Alois Albert ^a   Bale, Reto ^b   Harlander, Christoph ^b   Schatzer, Reinhold ^c   Schocke, Michael ^b   Gruber, Hannes ^b  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Neurochirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Facet joint injections; Navigation; Periradicular injections; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; JOINT; LUMBAR SPINE; MECHANICAL PROBE; PERIRADICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRA FACET JOINT ADMINISTRATION;

ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TEACHING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 34249295550     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2007.02.008     Document Type: Article

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