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Ultrasound View of Intraneural Injection

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Presently we can identify signs to help guide the administration of anesthetic drugs in the intraneural tissue. Nevertheless, these signs remain loosely defined, or are too difficult to identify or interpret to be useful in forming the criteria that ensure we have performed an intraneural injection.

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  1. Human Anatomy and Embryology Unit, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Xavier Sala-Blanch MD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Clinic Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

    Xavier Sala-Blanch MD

  3. Musculoskeletal Unit, Radiology Department, Imaging Diagnostic Center, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Jaume Pomés MD, PhD

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Department of Clinical Medical Sciences and Institute of Applied Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, University of CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain, and Madrid-Montepríncipe University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

    Miguel Angel Reina

  2. Department of Surgical Specialties, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Management, General University Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    José Antonio De Andrés

  3. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Anesthesiology, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York School of Regional, Anesthesia (NYSORA), New York, NY, USA, and Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

    Admir Hadzic

  4. Laboratory of Surgical NeuroAnatomy, Human Anatomy and Embryology Unit, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Alberto Prats-Galino

  5. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Human Anatomy and Embryology Unit, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, and Clinic Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

    Xavier Sala-Blanch

  6. Discipline of Anesthesiology, The University of Queensland and Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    André A.J. van Zundert

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Sala-Blanch, X., Pomés, J. (2015). Ultrasound View of Intraneural Injection. In: Reina, M., De Andrés, J., Hadzic, A., Prats-Galino, A., Sala-Blanch, X., van Zundert, A. (eds) Atlas of Functional Anatomy for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09522-6_13

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