Open AccessSubcapsular local anesthesia approach in percutaneous liver biopsy: less pain, more comfort
Author(s) -
Özgür Çakır,
Can Aksu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
turkish journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1303-6165
pISSN - 1300-0144
DOI - 10.3906/sag-2006-346
Subject(s) - medicine , percutaneous , local anesthesia , anesthesia , biopsy , surgery , visual analogue scale , anesthetic , ultrasound , radiology
To compare the subjective level of pain in patients who underwent an ultrasound-guided percutaneous liver biopsy (PLB) after either pericapsular anesthesia (PA) or subcapsular anesthesia (SA), based on the numeric rating scale (NRS).