Reliability of Tuffer's line evaluated on cadaver specimens

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 627-630

  Windisch, Gunther ^a   Ulz, Heimo ^a   Feigl, Georg ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Intercristal line; Lumbar vertebral level; Regional anesthesia; Tuffer's line

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CADAVER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILIAC CREST; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BACK; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 74049138339     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-009-0493-z     Document Type: Article

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