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Pudendal and Inferior Cluneal Nerve

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This chapter detailed the anatomy and sonoanatomy of the pudendal nerve at the interligamentous plane and the inferior cluneal nerve at the subgluteal region. The clinical presentation of nerve entrapment of both nerves is described as well as the ultrasound-guided intervention technique.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine, St. Joseph’s Health Care London, London, ON, Canada

    Geoff A. Bellingham

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

    Philip Peng

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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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Bellingham, G.A., Peng, P. (2020). Pudendal and Inferior Cluneal 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_9

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