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DOI:10.7759/cureus.58763 - Corpus ID: 269312822
@article{Ennouridrissi2024CombinedLP, title={Combined Lumbar Plexus-Sciatic Nerve Block for Urgent Lower Limb Surgery: A Good Alternative in Patients With High Anesthetic Risk}, author={Iliass Ennour idrissi and Manal Rhezali and Abdellah Enourhbi and Taoufik Abou Elhassan and Hicham Nejmi}, journal={Cureus}, year={2024}, volume={16}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:269312822}}
- Iliass Ennour idrissi, M. Rhezali, Hicham Nejmi
- Published in Cureus 1 April 2024
- Medicine
A case series of five patients with high anesthetic risk who underwent different lower limb surgeries under a combined lumbar plexus-sciatic nerve block is presented to evaluate the effectiveness of this technique as an anesthetic alternative for these different types of surgical procedures.
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