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Cervical Interlaminar Epidural Block

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This technique was first described by Dogliotti in 1933 [1] and may be used for both surgical anesthesia and analgesia as well as for persistent pain states. The possible surgical indications include upper limb surgery [2], neck surgery [3], and breast surgery [4].

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Princess Alexandra Hospital, 199 Ipswich Road, Woolloonabba, 4102, Australia

    Paul Gray

  2. The University of Queensland-Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Royal Brisbane and Women`s Hospital-Ned Hanlon Building level 4, Herston Campus-Brisbane, Queensland, 4029, Australia

    Andre van Zundert MD, PhD, FRCA, EDRA, FANZA (Professor and Chairman Discipline of Anesthesiology Chair)

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Gray, P., van Zundert, A. (2015). Cervical Interlaminar Epidural Block. In: Regional Nerve Blocks in Anesthesia and Pain Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05131-4_16

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