Open AccessRANDOMIZED STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF TOPICAL ANESTHESIA ON TUBERCULIN SKIN TEST REACTION SIZE IN CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Nicole Beydon,
Marie-Noëlle Lebras,
Agathe de Lauzanne,
Aurélie Clavel,
L. Holvoet-Vermaut,
Véronique Houdouin,
Albert Faye,
Mathie Lorrot,
Corinne Alberti
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/inf.0b013e3181bbecb6
Subject(s) - medicine , prilocaine , lidocaine , topical anesthesia , anesthesia , skin test , skin reaction , tuberculin , topical anesthetic , dermatology , surgery , tuberculosis , pathology
Tuberculin skin test (TST) application in children can be eased by topical anesthesia, but no study has determined whether lidocaine-prilocaine mixture application modifies TST skin reactions. We compared TST performed with and without topical anesthesia in 46 children (range, 0.4-15.9 years), and found that topical lidocaine-prilocaine did not affect the TST size reaction. Topical lidocaine-prilocaine can be used for TST.