The presence of transverse cervical and dorsal scapular arteries at three ultrasound probe positions commonly used in supraclavicular brachial plexus blockade

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 470-473

  Murata, Hiroaki ^a   Sakai, Akiko ^a   Hadzic, Admir ^b   Sumikawa, Koji ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CERVICAL TRANSVERSE ARTERY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL SCAPULAR ARTERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MECHANICAL PROBE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; NERVE BLOCK; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SHOULDER; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES;

EID: 84864418450     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182568557     Document Type: Article

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