Ultrasound-guided supraclavicular block: What is intraneural?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 250-251

  Morfey, Dorothea ^a   Brull, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LETTER; NERVE INJURY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; ULTRASOUND; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; NOTE;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; NEEDLES; NERVE BLOCK;

EID: 74049120775     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181c5d943     Document Type: Letter

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