Selective cervical nerve root blockade: Experience with a safe and reliable technique using an anterolateral approach for needle placement

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1909-1914

  Schellhas, Kurt P ^a   Pollei, S R ^a   Johnson, B A ^a   Golden, M J ^a   Eklund, J A ^a   Pobiel, R S ^a  

^a Center For Diagnostic Imaging Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE ROOT; OUTPATIENT CARE; SKIN DISCOLORATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 36448974147     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0707     Document Type: Article

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