A method for ultrasonographic visualization and injection of the superior laryngeal nerve: Volunteer study and cadaver simulation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1242-1245

  Kaur, Balvindar ^a   Tang, Raymond ^a   Sawka, Andrew ^a   Krebs, Claudia ^b   Vaghadia, Himat ^a  

^a Vancouver Coastal Health ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; CADAVER; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84868192637     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e318265f75d     Document Type: Article

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