Ultrasound imaging to estimate risk of esophageal and vascular puncture after conventional stellate ganglion block

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 224-227

  Siegenthaler, Andreas ^a   Mlekusch, Sabine ^a   Schliessbach, Juerg ^a   Curatolo, Michele ^a   Eichenberger, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY PUNCTURE; ARTICLE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK; ULTRASOUND; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUNCTURES; STELLATE GANGLION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859736427     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31823d40fe     Document Type: Article

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