Ultrasound-guided interventional procedures in pain medicine: A review of anatomy, sonoanatomy, and procedures part I: Nonaxial structures

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 458-474

  Peng, Philip W H ^a   Narouze, Samer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENITOFEMORAL NERVE BLOCK; HUMAN; ILIOHYPOGASTRIC NERVE BLOCK; ILOINGUINAL NERVE BLOCK; INTERCOSTAL NERVE BLOCK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATERAL FEMORAL CUTANEOUS NERVE BLOCK; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROANATOMY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; RADIATION HAZARD; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK; SUPRASCAPULAR NERVE BLOCK; ULTRASOUND;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE FIBERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 74549224525     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3181aea16f     Document Type: Review

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