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Stellate Ganglion Block

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Abstract

Stellate ganglion block (SGB) is a compartment block technique in which a local anesthetic is injected into a cervical sympathetic ganglion, stellate ganglion (SG), and the region around it to block the SG, cervical sympathetic trunk, and sympathetic pre- and postganglionic fibers contained in the compartment.

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  • 30 July 2019

    In the original version of Chapter 22, one of the author names was inadvertently published as Paku Motohiko. The name of the author should be read as Park Kieun.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan

    Naomi Hirakawa

  2. PAKU Painclinic, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, Japan

    Kieun Paku

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Nagasaki Rosai Hospital, Sasebo, Japan

    Natsuko Oji

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  1. Naomi Hirakawa
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Correspondence to Naomi Hirakawa .

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

    Kiyoshige Ohseto

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroyuki Uchino

  3. Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Gifu University, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroki Iida

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Hirakawa, N., Paku, K., Oji, N. (2019). Stellate Ganglion Block. In: Ohseto, K., Uchino, H., Iida, H. (eds) Nerve Blockade and Interventional Therapy. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54660-3_22

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