Local anesthesia using buffered 0.5% lidocaine with 1:200,000 epinephrine for tumors of the digits treated with Mohs micrographic surgery

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 639-643

  Firoz, Bahar ^a,b   Davis, Nathan ^b   Goldberg, Leonard H ^a,b,c  

^a DERMSURGERY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

digits; epinephrine; fingers; lidocaine; local anesthesia; Mohs micrographic surgery; toes

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUFFER; LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CHEMOSURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; FINGER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIA; KERATOACANTHOMA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN GRAFT; SMOKING; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STROKE; SURGEON; THROMBOSIS; TOE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOHS SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 69949150683     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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