Beware of the "serpentine" inferior thyroid artery while performing stellate ganglion block

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 289-290

  Narouze, Samer ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANATOMY; ARTERY; ARTERY INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFERIOR THYROID ARTERY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RETROPHARYNGEAL HEMATOMA; SAFETY; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK; THYROID GLAND; TRACHEA; ULTRASOUND; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE BLOCK; STELLATE GANGLION; VASCULARIZATION;

ARTERIES; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; HUMANS; STELLATE GANGLION; THYROID GLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 67650657093     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181a20197     Document Type: Letter

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