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REGIONAL ANESTHESIA

A Study of the Paravertebral Anatomy for Ultrasound-Guided Posterior Lumbar Plexus Block

Lukas Kirchmair, MB^*, Tanja Entner, MD, Jörg Wissel, MD, Bernhard Moriggl, MD, Stephan Kapral, MD, and Gottfried Mitterschiffthaler, MD^||||

*Institute of Anatomy and Histology, Department of Neurology, and ||||Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; Anatomische Anstalt, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Munich, Germany; and Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Lukas Kirchmair, MB, Institute of Anatomy and Histology, University of Innsbruck, Muellerstrasse 59, A-6010 Innsbruck, Austria. Address e-mail to lukas.kirchmair{at}tirol.com

IMPLICATIONS: We investigated the feasibility of posterior paravertebral sonography as a basis for ultrasound-guided posterior lumbar plexus blockades. Posterior paravertebral sonography proved to be a reliable as well as accurate imaging procedure for visualization of the lumbar paravertebral region except the lumbar plexus.

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