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Psoas compartment block for the treatment of lower-limb spasticity caused by spinal cord injury: report of a case

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Ibi General Hospital, 2547-4 Miwa Ibigawa-cho, 501-06, Ibi-gun, Gifu, Japan

    Motoyasu Takenaka

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu city, 500, Gifu, Japan

    Hiroki Iida, Shuichiro Ohta & Shuji Dohi

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Takenaka, M., Iida, H., Ohta, S. et al. Psoas compartment block for the treatment of lower-limb spasticity caused by spinal cord injury: report of a case. J Anesth 11, 300–302 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02480748

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