title: [Local anesthesia with block of the sexual nerve in conduction of transperineal biopsy of the prostate].
abstract: We studied 137 males (mean age 68 +/- 8.6 years) with suspected prostatic cancer who had undergone transperineal biopsy of the prostate (12 tissue samples). The biopsy was made under local anesthesia either as paraprostatic block (n=76, group 1) or paraprostatic block in combination with block of the sexual nerve (n=61, group 2). Pain intensity was evaluated with visual analogue scales. Induction of anesthesia was more painful in group 2, three other stages--in group 1. Mean pain at biopsy was significantly (p < 0.001) lower in group 2. Thus, addition of sexual nerve blockade to standard paraprostatic block increases efficacy of anesthesia in conduction of transperitoneal biopsy of the prostate.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Chepurov
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: vladimirov
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Zarinskaia
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Meshkov
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kabaladze
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Iremashvili
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000772:Anesthesia, Local / Q000379:methods*; D001706:Biopsy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods; D011467:Prostate / Q000473:pathology*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*