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Imaging for regional block: clinical applications of sympathetic blockade in pain therapy

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Regional Anaesthesia Analgesia and Pain Management

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Biomedical imaging began 100 years ago: in 1885 Roentgen discovered X-rays and in the early 1970s computed tomography (CT), in the early 1980s magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and in the last few years posctron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) have come to be.

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  1. University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    M. Tiengo MD (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

  2. Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, University of Trieste, Cattinara Hospital, Trieste, Italy

    V. A. Paladini MD

  3. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Orebro University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden

    N. Rawal MD

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Branca, L. (1999). Imaging for regional block: clinical applications of sympathetic blockade in pain therapy. In: Tiengo, M., Paladini, V.A., Rawal, N. (eds) Regional Anaesthesia Analgesia and Pain Management. Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2240-9_19

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