A prospective, randomized comparison between combined (deep and superficial) and superficial cervical plexus block with levobupivacaine for minimally invasive parathyroidectomy

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1160-1163

  Pintaric, Tatjana Stopar ^a   Hocevar, Marko ^a   Jereb, Simona ^a   Casati, Andrea ^b   Jankovic, Vesna Novak ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRONE; FENTANYL; FENTANYL TORREX; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; MIDAZOLAM; MIDAZOLAM MALEATE; MIDAZOLAM TORREX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NAUSEA; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADENOMA; AGED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CERVICAL PLEXUS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 34748906603     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000280443.03867.12     Document Type: Article

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