Monthly Prescribing Reference

Better Analgesia From Pelvic Plexus Block in Prostate Biopsy

BMD Loss Occurs Early in Androgen Deprivation Therapy Compared with periprostatic nerve block (PNB), pelvic plexus block (PPB), performed under Doppler ultrasound guidance, provides better pain relief ...
Nature

Targeting anesthesia to the pelvic plexus for prostate biopsy

Injecting lidocaine proximal to the pelvic plexus provides superior pain relief to the standard periprostatic nerve block procedure. This was the main finding of a prospective randomized trial of 80 ...
Renal & Urology News

Study Hints At a Better Way to Lessen Prostate Biopsy Pain

A better way to lessen prostate biopsy pain Patients reported significantly less pain with pelvic plexus block than conventional periprostatic block. Pelvic plexus block is more effective than ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Pelvic Sympathetic Surgery for the Relief of Bladder Pain — Resection of the Superior Hypogastric Plexus and Lateral Sacral Sympathetic Ganglia in Tuberculous Cystitis

Presented at the eighty-second meeting of the New England Branch of the American Urological Association, March 3, 1938. From the Department of Urology, Charles Godwin Jennings Hospital, Detroit, ...
Renal & Urology News

Better Analgesia From Pelvic Plexus Block in Prostate Biopsy

BMD Loss Occurs Early in Androgen Deprivation Therapy Compared with periprostatic nerve block during transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy Compared with periprostatic nerve block (PNB), pelvic ...