Ultrasound-guided deep or intermediate cervical plexus block: The target should be the posterior cervical space

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1563-1564

  Choquet, Olivier ^a   Dadure, Christophe ^a   Capdevila, Xavier ^a  

^a LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

CAROTID ARTERY SURGERY; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CERVICAL SPINE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FASCIA; HUMAN; LETTER; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MUSCLE NECROSIS; MYOPATHY; NECK; NERVE BLOCK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPULA; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SYMPATHETIC TRUNK; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; ULTRASOUND; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CERVICAL PLEXUS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; NERVE BLOCK; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 78650323462     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181f1d48f     Document Type: Letter

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