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Review of knee arthroscopy performed under local anesthesia

Local anesthesia for knee arthroscopy is a well documented procedure with diagnostic and therapeutic role. Numerous therapeutic procedures including partial menisectomy, meniscus repair, abrasion chondroplasy, synovectomy, loose body removal can be performed safely and comfortably. Appropriate case...

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Autores principales: Law, Billy Kan-Yip, Yung, Patrick Shu-Hang, Ho, Eric Po-Yan, Chang, Joseph Jeremy Hsi-Tse, Kwok, Grace Ken, Fung, Kwai-Yau, Chan, Kai-Ming
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2637092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19284682
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2555-1-3
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author Law, Billy Kan-Yip
Yung, Patrick Shu-Hang
Ho, Eric Po-Yan
Chang, Joseph Jeremy Hsi-Tse
Kwok, Grace Ken
Fung, Kwai-Yau
Chan, Kai-Ming
author_facet Law, Billy Kan-Yip
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description Local anesthesia for knee arthroscopy is a well documented procedure with diagnostic and therapeutic role. Numerous therapeutic procedures including partial menisectomy, meniscus repair, abrasion chondroplasy, synovectomy, loose body removal can be performed safely and comfortably. Appropriate case selection, anesthetic strategy and technical expertise are the key to smooth and successful surgery.
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spelling pubmed-26370922009-02-12 Review of knee arthroscopy performed under local anesthesia Law, Billy Kan-Yip Yung, Patrick Shu-Hang Ho, Eric Po-Yan Chang, Joseph Jeremy Hsi-Tse Kwok, Grace Ken Fung, Kwai-Yau Chan, Kai-Ming Sports Med Arthrosc Rehabil Ther Technol Review Local anesthesia for knee arthroscopy is a well documented procedure with diagnostic and therapeutic role. Numerous therapeutic procedures including partial menisectomy, meniscus repair, abrasion chondroplasy, synovectomy, loose body removal can be performed safely and comfortably. Appropriate case selection, anesthetic strategy and technical expertise are the key to smooth and successful surgery. BioMed Central 2009-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2637092/ /pubmed/19284682 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2555-1-3 Text en Copyright © 2009 Law et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Law, Billy Kan-Yip
Yung, Patrick Shu-Hang
Ho, Eric Po-Yan
Chang, Joseph Jeremy Hsi-Tse
Kwok, Grace Ken
Fung, Kwai-Yau
Chan, Kai-Ming
Review of knee arthroscopy performed under local anesthesia
title Review of knee arthroscopy performed under local anesthesia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2637092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19284682
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