Severe brachial plexopathy after an ultrasound-guided single-injection nerve block for total shoulder arthroplasty in a patient with multiple sclerosis: What is the likely cause of this complication?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 750-751

  Borgeat, Alain ^a   Aguirre, José ^b   Neudörfer, Claudio ^b   Jutzi, Hans ^b  

^a BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; ROPIVACAINE;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE BLOCK; OPERATION DURATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY; ULTRASOUND; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SHOULDER;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE BLOCK; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SHOULDER JOINT; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 54749133896     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181863861     Document Type: Letter

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