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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 107316, 6 pages
doi:10.1100/2012/107316
Clinical Study

Efficacy of the Bilateral Ilioinguinal-Iliohypogastric Block with Intrathecal Morphine for Postoperative Cesarean Delivery Analgesia

Manuel C. Vallejo,1 Talora L. Steen,2 Benjamin T. Cobb,2 Amy L. Phelps,3 Joel M. Pomerantz,1 Steven L. Orebaugh,4 and Jacques E. Chelly5

1Department of Anesthesiology, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, 300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
2School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
3School of Business, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282, USA
4Department of Anesthesiology, UPMC South Side Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15203, USA
5Department of Anesthesiology, UPMC Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA

Received 24 September 2012; Accepted 8 November 2012

Academic Editors: S. Lang, E. O. Martin, and R. Sabatowski

Copyright © 2012 Manuel C. Vallejo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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