Precision of traditional approaches for lumbar plexus block: Impact and management of interindividual anatomic variability

Anesthesiology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 525-532

  Heller, Axel R ^a   Fuchs, Alexander ^a   Rössel, Thomas ^a   Vicent, Oliver ^a   Wiessner, Diana ^a   Funk, Richard H W ^a   Koch, Thea ^a   Litz, Rainer J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILIAC BONE; LUMBAR PLEXUS BLOCK; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TRIANGULATION;

EID: 69549110151     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181af64b6     Document Type: Article

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