title: [Peri-ocular anesthesia by unique caruncular injection in surgery of the anterior segment].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the efficacy and safety of medial canthus local anesthesia in anterior segment surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  From December 1st 1996 to October 24th 1997, 234 patients underwent anterior segment surgery under caruncular single injection anesthesia: cataract, phacotrabeculectomy, corneal graft and triple procedure.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The technique achieved good globe anesthesia and lid and orbital muscle akinesia. Neither globe perforation nor lid ecchymoses were observed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Caruncular single injection appears to be a good alternative to classical peribulbar block.
authors.affiliation: Institut Edith Cavell, Bruxelles.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Meur
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Meur-Terfve
mesh_terms: D000772:Anesthesia, Local / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D000869:Anterior Eye Segment / Q000601:surgery*; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D007765:Lacrimal Apparatus; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D018918:Phacoemulsification; D012189:Retrospective Studies