Harvesting buccal mucosa graft under local infiltration analgesia--mitigating need for general anesthesia.
For buccal mucosal graft urethroplasty, nasal or oral endotracheal intubation anesthesia is used for harvesting the graft from the oral cavity. A technique of graft harvesting under local anesthesia using 2% lidocaine solution with adrenaline (1:200,000) is described. This method requires a cooperative patient but saves the morbidity of general anesthesia.
Goel
Apul
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Department of Urology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India. goelapul1@rediffmail.com
Dalela
D
D
Sinha
R J
RJ
Sankhwar
S N
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D000768:Anesthesia, General; D000772:Anesthesia, Local; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006801:Humans; D008012:Lidocaine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000601:surgery*; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000295:instrumentation; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D019737:Transplants; D014521:Urethra / Q000601:surgery*; D014525:Urethral Stricture / Q000601:surgery*
D008012:Lidocaine; D004837:Epinephrine