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Ultrasound-Guided Knee Intervention

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Ultrasound for Interventional Pain Management

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Knee injections are common procedures to treat pain when conservative treatment fails. Ultrasound-guided musculoskeletal injections are shown to improve accuracy and clinical outcomes. This objective of this chapter is to describe how to perform a few selected ultrasound-guided pain procedures at the knee: intra-articular, Baker’s cyst, pes anserinus bursa and tendon, iliotibial band bursa, and patellar tendon.

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Nouer Frederico, T., Peng, P. (2020). Ultrasound-Guided Knee Intervention. In: Peng, P., Finlayson, R., Lee, S., Bhatia, A. (eds) Ultrasound for Interventional Pain Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18371-4_23

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