Ultrasound-guided interventional procedures in pain medicine: A review of anatomy, sonoanatomy, and procedures: Part ii: Axial structures

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 386-396

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

^a Summa Western Reserve Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE ROOT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACROILIAC JOINT; ANALGESIA; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NERVE FIBER; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANALGESIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; NERVE FIBERS; PAIN; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77954412013     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3181e82f42     Document Type: Review

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