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Thoracic Facet Pain/Medial Branch Blocks

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64490: zygapophyseal joint (or nerves innervating that joint) with image guidance, cervical or thoracic; single level

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  1. Department of Pain Mangement, Kaiser Permanente, Modesto Medical Offices, 4601 Dale Road, Modesto, CA, 95356, USA

    Yi Cai Isaac Tong MD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    R. Jason Yong MD, MBA

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, 1153 Centre Street, Boston, MA, 02130, USA

    R. Jason Yong MD, MBA

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    R. Jason Yong

  2. Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael Nguyen

  3. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Ehren Nelson

  4. Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Health Care Center at Chestnut Hill, Center for Perioperative Research, Sedation for Interventional Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Tong, Y.C.I., Yong, R.J. (2017). Thoracic Facet Pain/Medial Branch Blocks. In: Yong, R., Nguyen, M., Nelson, E., Urman, R. (eds) Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43133-8_64

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