Sonographic tracking of trunk nerves: essential for ultrasound-guided pain management and research

Delineation of architecture of peripheral nerves can be successfully achieved by high-resolution ultrasound (US), which is essential for US-guided pain management. There are numerous musculoskeletal pain syndromes involving the trunk nerves necessitating US for evaluation and guided interventions. T...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of pain research 2017-01, Vol.10, p.79-88
Main Authors: Chang, Ke-Vin, Lin, Chih-Peng, Lin, Chia-Shiang, Wu, Wei-Ting, Karmakar, Manoj K, Özçakar, Levent
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anesthesiology
Diagnostic ultrasonography
lumbar
Medicine
Methods
nerve
pain
Pain management
trunk
Ultrasonic imaging
ultrasound
Veins & arteries
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Delineation of architecture of peripheral nerves can be successfully achieved by high-resolution ultrasound (US), which is essential for US-guided pain management. There are numerous musculoskeletal pain syndromes involving the trunk nerves necessitating US for evaluation and guided interventions. The most common peripheral nerve disorders at the trunk region include thoracic outlet syndrome (brachial plexus), scapular winging (long thoracic nerve), interscapular pain (dorsal scapular nerve), and lumbar facet joint syndrome (medial branches of spinal nerves). Until now, there is no single article systematically summarizing the anatomy, sonographic pictures, and video demonstration of scanning techniques regarding trunk nerves. In this review, the authors have incorporated serial figures of transducer placement, US images, and videos for scanning the nerves in the trunk region and hope this paper helps physicians familiarize themselves with nerve sonoanatomy and further apply this technique for US-guided pain medicine and research.
ISSN:1178-7090
1178-7090
DOI:10.2147/JPR.S123828