title: Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Nerve Injection Techniques.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Peripheral nerves are well seen using ultrasound (US) imaging, making US an ideal modality for image-guided nerve injections. This article provides a technical guide for common upper and lower extremity peripheral nerve injections, including the median, ulnar, and radial nerves in the upper extremity and the lateral femoral cutaneous, sciatic, common peroneal, tibial, and sural nerves in the lower extremity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  US is an effective modality for use in common upper and lower extremity peripheral nerve injections. With correct technique, peripheral nerve injections can be performed safely and are useful for both diagnostic evaluation of and therapy for peripheral neuropathy.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology and Imaging, Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 E 70th St, 3rd Fl, New York, NY 10021.|2 Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY.
authors.forename: O Kenechi
authors.initials: OK
authors.lastname: Nwawka
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology and Imaging, Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 E 70th St, 3rd Fl, New York, NY 10021.|2 Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Theodore T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007267:Injections; D010525:Peripheral Nerves; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy*; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional
keywords: interventional ultrasound; lower extremity nerves; peripheral nerve injection; upper extremity nerves