Comparison of combined femoral nerve block and spinal anesthesia with lumbar plexus block for postoperative analgesia in intertrochanteric fracture surgery

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 32-35

  Amiri, Hamid Reza ^a   Safari, Saeid ^b   Makarem, Jalil ^a   Rahimi, Mojgan ^a   Jahanshahi, Behnaz ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Anesthesia; Femoral Nerve; Hip Fractures; Lumbosacral Plexus; Spinal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892458257     PISSN: 22287523     EISSN: 22287531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/aapm.4526     Document Type: Article

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