Semantics, misnomer, or uncertainty: Where is the epineurium on ultrasound?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 360-361

  Endersby, Ryan ^a   Albrecht, Eric ^a   Perlas, Anahi ^a   Chan, Vincent ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHOGRAPHY; EPINEURAL NERVE; HUMAN; LETTER; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE SHEATH; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SEMANTICS; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL NERVE; SUBEPINEURAL INJECTION; TIBIAL NERVE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; SCIATIC NERVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84860702722     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e318253b48f     Document Type: Letter

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