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Occipital Nerve Block (Landmark, Ultrasound-Guided)

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Occipital nerve blocks are used to treat various forms of headache. The three nerves that comprise the posterior occipital nerve are the greater occipital nerve, the third occipital nerve, and the lesser occipital nerve.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine 2, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan

    Hiroyuki Nishie

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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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Nishie, H. (2019). Occipital Nerve Block (Landmark, Ultrasound-Guided). 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_19

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