Images in anesthesiology: Severe posterior thigh abscess as a complication of popliteal sciatic nerve catheter

Anesthesiology. 2013 Apr;118(4):955. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318260ce02.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abscess / microbiology*
  • Abscess / surgery
  • Anesthesiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Nerve Block / adverse effects*
  • Nerve Block / instrumentation
  • Sciatic Nerve / microbiology*
  • Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology*
  • Staphylococcal Infections / surgery
  • Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification
  • Thigh / innervation
  • Thigh / microbiology*
  • Thigh / surgery