EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE Evidence-Based Interventional Pain Medicine according to Clinical Diagnoses 20. Meralgia Paresthetica
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Jacob Patijn, MD, PhD*; Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD, FIPP; Salim Hayek, MD, PhD, FIPP; Arno Lataster, MSc; Maarten van Kleef, MD, PhD, FIPP*; Jan Van Zundert, MD, PhD, FIPP* *Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University Medical Centre Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Department of Pain Management, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Division of Pain Medicine, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.; Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Department of Anesthesiology and Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium
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