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Suprascapular Nerve

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The chapter discusses the anatomy and sonoanatomy of the suprascapular nerve, the injection technique, and the proposed peripheral nerve stimulation of the suprascapular nerve.

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  1. SamWell Institute of Pain Management, Woodbridge, NJ, USA

    Jay M. Shah

  2. Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care, Sewickley, PA, USA

    Zachary Pellis & David Anthony Provenzano

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  1. Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto Western Hopsital and Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Philip Peng

  2. Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Roderick Finlayson

  3. Madi Pain Management Center, Jeonju, Korea (Republic of)

    Sang Hoon Lee

  4. Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto Western Hopsital and Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Anuj Bhatia

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Shah, J.M., Pellis, Z., Provenzano, D.A. (2020). Suprascapular Nerve. In: Peng, P., Finlayson, R., Lee, S., Bhatia, A. (eds) Ultrasound for Interventional Pain Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18371-4_4

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