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Editorial

. 2019 Sep 20:rapm-2019-100851.

doi: 10.1136/rapm-2019-100851. Online ahead of print.

Epidural blood patch is an iatrogenic epidural hematoma: asymptomatic or symptomatic? This is the question

Samer Narouze¹

Affiliations

PMID: 31541007
DOI: 10.1136/rapm-2019-100851

Editorial

Epidural blood patch is an iatrogenic epidural hematoma: asymptomatic or symptomatic? This is the question

Samer Narouze. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2019.

. 2019 Sep 20:rapm-2019-100851.

doi: 10.1136/rapm-2019-100851. Online ahead of print.

Author

Samer Narouze¹

Affiliation

¹ Center for Pain Medicine, Western Reserve Hospital, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA narouzs@hotmail.com.

PMID: 31541007
DOI: 10.1136/rapm-2019-100851

No abstract available

Keywords: interventional pain management; neuraxial blocks: epidural; postdural puncture headache.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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