Ultrasound-guided perineural steroid injection to treat intractable pain due to sciatic nerve injury

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 902-906

  Wang, Jia Chi ^a   Chiou, Hong Jen ^a   Lu, Jen Her ^a   Hsu, Yung Cheng ^a   Chan, Rai Chi ^a,b   Yang, Tsui Fen ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ALLODYNIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DYSESTHESIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LEG PAIN; MALE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERINEURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRATUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RATING SCALE; SCIATIC NERVE INJURY; STEROID THERAPY; SUPINE POSITION; ULTRASOUND GUIDED PERINEURAL STEROID INJECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; TRIAMCINOLONE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84883203629     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: 14968975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-013-9987-6     Document Type: Article

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