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Decreased risk of knee buckling with adductor canal block versus femoral nerve block in total knee arthroplasty: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Femoral nerve (FNB) and adductor canal blocks (ACB) are used in the setting of total knee arthroplasty (TKA), but neither has been demonstrated to be clearly superior. Although dynamometer studies have shown ACBs spare perioperative quadriceps function when compared to FNBs, ACBs have be...

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Autores principales: Thacher, Ryan R., Hickernell, Thomas R., Grosso, Matthew J., Shah, Roshan, Cooper, Herbert J., Maniker, Robert, Brown, Anthony Robin, Geller, Jeffrey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5712030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29204497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artd.2017.02.008