Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Nov 2006
Historical ArticleRegional anesthesia and pain medicine after 30 years: A historical perspective.
Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2006. What began as a 10-page, industry-sponsored bulletin has evolved into a major anesthesiology and pain journal. This history article chronicles the journal's growth and development over 3 decades.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Nov 2006
Detection of epithelial cell transfer in spinal areas by light microscopy and determining any tissue coring via cell culture during combined spinal-epidural interventions.
Epithelial tissue coring by spinal needles during subarachnoid injections may cause intraspinal epidermal tumors. Previous studies have investigated tissue transfer with different needle types during subarachnoid or epidural injection. This study deals with the transfer of epithelial tissue during combined spinal-epidural (CSE) anesthesia. ⋯ We could not reproduce the cells or cell debris obtained during the CSE interventions in vivo, which can be explained by a possible structural deformation of cells or the inadequacy of the amount of cells that were transferred.