A heat map of superior cervical ganglion location relative to the common carotid artery bifurcation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 462-465

  Wisco, Jonathan J ^a,b   Stark, M Elena ^a,b   Safir, Ilan ^a   Rahman, Siamak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE TRACT; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CADAVER; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE BLOCK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84856212889     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31823b676d     Document Type: Article

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