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ReviewDento maxillo facial radiology2020

Peripheral nerve blocks in the cervical region: from anatomy to ultrasound-guided techniques.

Theodosios Saranteas, Andreas Kostroglou, Georgia Efstathiou, Dimitrios Giannoulis, Nefeli Moschovaki, Andreas F Mavrogenis, Christos Perisanidis

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Review in Dento maxillo facial radiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. 11. Cervicogenic headache and occipital neuralgia.Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2025
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  7. Ultrasound-guided injection into the lateral crico-arytenoid muscle: a pilot study.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Theodosios SaranteasSecond Department of Anesthesiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece.
Andreas KostroglouSecond Department of Anesthesiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece.
Georgia EfstathiouSecond Department of Anesthesiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios GiannoulisSecond Department of Anesthesiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece.
Nefeli MoschovakiSecond Department of Anesthesiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece.
Andreas F MavrogenisFirst Department of Orthopaedics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Medical School, Athens, Greece.
Christos PerisanidisDepartment of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRMedical University of Vienna · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cervical plexus nerve blocks have been employed in various head and neck operations. Both adequate anaesthesia and analgesia are attained in clinical practice. Nowadays, ultrasound imaging in regional anaesthesia is driven towards a certain objective that dictates high accuracy and safety during the implementation of peripheral nerve blocks. In the cervical region, ultrasound-guided nerve blocks have routinely been conducted only for the past few years and thus only a small number of publications pervade the current literature. Moreover, the sonoanatomy of the neck, the foundation stone of interventional techniques, is very challenging; multiple muscles and fascial layers compose a complex of compartments in a narrow anatomic region, in which local anaesthetics are injected. Therefore, this review intends to deliver new insights into ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve block techniques in the neck. The sonoanatomy of the cervical region, in addition to the cervical plexus, cervical ganglia, superior and recurrent laryngeal nerve blocks are comprehensively discussed.

Indexed as

Anesthesia, ConductionNerve BlockAnesthetics, LocalCervical PlexusUltrasonographyUltrasonography, InterventionalAnesthetics, Localcervical plexusinterventional ultrasonographynerve block

Identifiers

PMID32176537
PMCPMC7719858
OpenAlexW3012266413

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