Adding corticosteroids to the pudendal nerve block for pudendal neuralgia: a randomised, double-blind, controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the effect of corticosteroids combined with local anaesthetic versus local anaesthetic alone during infiltrations of the pudendal nerve for pudendal nerve entrapment.

Design

Randomised, double-blind, controlled trial.

Setting

Multicentre study.

Population

201 patients were included in the study, with a subgroup of 122 women.

Methods

CT-guided pudendal nerve infiltrations were performed in the sacrospinous ligament and Alcock's canal. There were three study arms: patients in Arm A (n = 68) had local anaesthetic alone, those in Arm B (n = 66) had local anaesthetic plus corticosteroid and those in Arm C (n = 67) local anaesthetic plus corticosteroid with a large volume of normal saline.

Main outcome measures

The primary end-point

SUBMITTER: Labat JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5215631 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature