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Considerable controversy exists regarding the ideal anaesthetic coverage for external urethral sphincterotomy in spinal injury patients with detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia. From this preliminary experience on 34 patients in whom this procedure was indicated and then attempted under topical (urethral instillation of 20 ml of 2 per cent Lignocaine jelly) or no anaesthesia, we are encouraged into believing that these patients may not require general or regional anaesthesia for this operation
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Rao, M., Bapna, B., Vaidyanathan et al. Topical or no anaesthesia for external urethral sphincterotomy in neurogenic vesical dysfunction due to spinal injury. Spinal Cord 15, 226–229 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1977.34
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