Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine· 2026Q1
Beyond intramuscular nerve blockade: a complementary perspective on the anatomic basis of the PENG block
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Short summary
A multimodal anatomic study clarifies injectate spread in the PENG block, showing it primarily targets the anterior hip capsule and surrounding structures, not intramuscularly.
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Key points
- Injectate in the PENG block primarily spreads within the anterior hip capsule and surrounding fascial planes.
- The distribution reaches the anterior hip joint and proximal femur.
- The study refutes intramuscular injectate spread as the primary mechanism for the PENG block.
- A multimodal approach combining dissection, cryo-analysis, and histology was used.
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Abstract
We read with great interest the study by Gautier and colleagues, which used a multimodal approach combining gross dissection, cryo-cross-sectional analysis, and histology to characterize injectate distribution following the pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block.[1][1] The methodological rigor of
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