Suprascapular nerve block in chronic shoulder pain: Are the radiologists better?

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1035-1040

  Shanahan, E M ^a   Smith, M D ^a   Wetherall, M ^a   Lott, C W ^a   Slavotinek, J ^a   FitzGerald, O ^b   Ahern, M J ^a  

^a REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER PAIN; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SUPRASCAPULAR NERVE BLOCK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BUPIVACAINE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER PAIN; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4344579155     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2003.015909     Document Type: Article

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