A prospective evaluation of psoas muscle and intravascular injection in lumbar sympathetic ganglion block

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 802-807

  Hong, Ji H ^a   Kim, Ae R ^a   Lee, Mi Y ^a   Kim, Yong C ^b   Oh, Min J ^a  

^a Keimyung University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPAMIDOL;

ARTICLE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSOAS MUSCLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; ADULT; AGED; BACK; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; INJECTION; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSOAS MUSCLES; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPINE;

EID: 77956404159     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181e9eb35     Document Type: Article

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