Artifacts and Pitfall Errors Associated With Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia. Part II: A Pictorial Approach to Understanding and Avoidance

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 419-433

  Sites, Brian D ^a   Brull, Richard ^b   Chan, Vincent W S ^b   Spence, Brian C ^a   Gallagher, John ^a   Beach, Michael L ^a   Sites, Vincent R ^c   Abbas, Sherif ^b   Hartman, Gregg S ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD FLOW; EDEMA; ERROR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LYMPH NODE; NEEDLE; NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SKIN; ULTRASOUND;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD VESSELS; EDEMA; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIPHERAL NERVES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; TENDONS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 35348985421     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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