Ultrasound-guided popliteal block through a common paraneural sheath versus conventional injection: A prospective, randomized, double-blind study

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 218-225

  Perlas, Anahi ^a   Wong, Patrick ^a   Abdallah, Faraj ^a   Hazrati, Lili Naz ^b   Tse, Cyrus ^a   Chan, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; COMMON PARANEURAL SHEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOOT SURGERY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE SHEATH; NEUROANATOMY; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCIATIC NERVE; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND GUIDED POPLITEAL SCIATIC NERVE BLOCK; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCIATIC NERVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84876805277     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31828db12f     Document Type: Article

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