Ultrasound-guided cervical spine injections: Ultrasound "prevents" whereas contrast fluoroscopy "detects" intravascular injections

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-130

  Narouze, Samer N ^a  

^a Summa Western Reserve Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL SPINE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK; ULTRASOUND;

AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PUNCTURES; SPINAL NERVES; STELLATE GANGLION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 84859762892     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31823f3c80     Document Type: Review

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