Ultrasound-Guided Cervical Nerve Root Block: Spread of Solution and Clinical Effect

Pain Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1190-1195

  Yamauchi, Masanori ^a   Suzuki, Daisuke ^a   Niiya, Tomohisa ^a   Honma, Hironori ^a   Tachibana, Nobuko ^a   Watanabe, Akihiko ^a   Fujimiya, Mineko ^a   Yamakage, Michiaki ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical; Interventional; Nerve Block; Radiculopathy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE ROOT; NERVE STIMULATION; NOTE; RADICULOPATHY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 80051689990     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2011.01170.x     Document Type: Article

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