Techniques in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Management
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 209-210 , October 2008

Letter to the editor: Other ganglion impar blocks are also safe

  • Ricardo Plancarte, MD, FIPP (Chairman)

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Pain and Palliative Care Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Professor, Pain Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
    • ,
  • Jorge Guajardo-Rosas, MD (Associate Professor)

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Pain and Palliative Care Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico City, Mexico
    • ,
  • Ángel Lee, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico

References 

  1. Foye PM. Letter to the editor: Safe ganglion impar blocks for visceral and coccyx pain. Tech Reg Anesth Pain Manag. 2008;12:122–123
  2. Plancarte R, et al. Presacral blockade of the ganglion of Walther (ganglion Impar). Anesthesiology. 1990;73:A751
  3. Alshab AK, Goldner JD, Panchal SJ. Complications of sympathetic blocks for visceral pain. Tech Reg Anesth Pain Manage. 2007;11:152–156
  4. Nebab EG, Florence IM. An alternative needle geometry for interruption of the ganglion impar. Anesthesiology. 1997;86:1213–1214
  5. Mille JE, Plancarte R. Bloqueo del ganglio impar (ganglio de Walter). In: Aliaga  editors. Anestesia Regional Hoy. Barcelona: Publicaciones Permanyer SL; 1998;p. 418;Figure 6 (in Spanish)

PII: S1084-208X(08)00050-5

doi: 10.1053/j.trap.2008.10.001

Techniques in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Management
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 209-210 , October 2008

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