Greater Occipital Nerve Block by Using Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography
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Greater occipital nerve block by using transcranial Doppler ultrasonography.
Greater occipital nerve block (GONB) is a common procedure to diagnose and treat patients with occipital neuralgia and to differentiate headaches of cervical origin from other types of headaches (1,2). Although a relatively safe method and easy to perform, the classical method of blind injection just medial to the palpated occipital artery at the level of the superior nuchal line is not target ...
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عنوان ژورنال: July 2010
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2150-1149,1533-3159
DOI: 10.36076/ppj.2010/13/395