The effect of local anaesthetic spray on the pain associated with local anaesthetic injection, prior to biopsy or loop diathermy to the cervix in the outpatient colposcopy clinic

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 686-688

  Connell, R J ^a   Creighton, S M ^a   Cutner, A ^a  

^a Napolitano and Prof David)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELYPRESSIN; LIDOCAINE; PRILOCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLPOSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATHERMY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; COLPOSCOPY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LIDOCAINE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034010114     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2000.tb13313.x     Document Type: Article

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