Three-dimensional computed tomography for difficult thoracic epidural needle placement

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 654-658

  Murata, Hiroaki ^a   Sakai, Tetsuya ^a   Goto, Shinichi ^b   Sumikawa, Koji ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital Nagasaki   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; MORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPIDURAL NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INCIDENCE; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 38549101097     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31815efa06     Document Type: Article

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