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Ultrasound imaging accurately identifies the intercostobrachial nerve

Ahmed K. Thallaj, Mohammad K. Al Harbi, Tariq A. Alzahrani, Salah N. El-Tallawy, Abdulaziz A. Alsaif and Mohannad Alnajjar
Saudi Medical Journal October 2015, 36 (10) 1241-1244; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.10.11758
Ahmed K. Thallaj
From the Departments of Anesthesia (Thallaj, Alzahrani, El-Tallawy, Alnajjar), Surgery (Alsaif), College of Medicine, King Saud University, and the Department of Anesthesia (Al Harbi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Science, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohammad K. Al Harbi
From the Departments of Anesthesia (Thallaj, Alzahrani, El-Tallawy, Alnajjar), Surgery (Alsaif), College of Medicine, King Saud University, and the Department of Anesthesia (Al Harbi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Science, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Tariq A. Alzahrani
From the Departments of Anesthesia (Thallaj, Alzahrani, El-Tallawy, Alnajjar), Surgery (Alsaif), College of Medicine, King Saud University, and the Department of Anesthesia (Al Harbi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Science, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Salah N. El-Tallawy
From the Departments of Anesthesia (Thallaj, Alzahrani, El-Tallawy, Alnajjar), Surgery (Alsaif), College of Medicine, King Saud University, and the Department of Anesthesia (Al Harbi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Science, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdulaziz A. Alsaif
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Mohannad Alnajjar
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vol. 36 no. 10 1241-1244
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.10.11758
PubMed 
26446339

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received March 5, 2015
  • Accepted August 20, 2015
  • Published online October 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Ahmed K. Thallaj, MD,
  2. Mohammad K. Al Harbi, MD, FRCPC⇑,
  3. Tariq A. Alzahrani, MD,
  4. Salah N. El-Tallawy, MD,
  5. Abdulaziz A. Alsaif, MD and
  6. Mohannad Alnajjar, MD
  1. From the Departments of Anesthesia (Thallaj, Alzahrani, El-Tallawy, Alnajjar), Surgery (Alsaif), College of Medicine, King Saud University, and the Department of Anesthesia (Al Harbi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Science, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and re-prints request to: Dr. Mohammed Al Harbi, Department of Anesthesia, King Abdulaziz Medical City, PO Box 7805, Riyadh 11472, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: harbimk{at}ngha.med.sa
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