Epinephrine Injection Associated Scrotal Skin Necrosis

Male circumcision is among the most frequent surgical interventions throughout history. Although considered as a minor intervention, it may have complications ranging from insignificant to catastrophic. These complications can be attributed to the surgical procedure and anesthesia. In this report we...

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Autores principales: Gul, Murat, Kaynar, Mehmet, Sekmenli, Tamer, Ciftci, Ilhan, Goktas, Serdar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4491570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26185706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/187831
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author Gul, Murat
Kaynar, Mehmet
Sekmenli, Tamer
Ciftci, Ilhan
Goktas, Serdar
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description Male circumcision is among the most frequent surgical interventions throughout history. Although considered as a minor intervention, it may have complications ranging from insignificant to catastrophic. These complications can be attributed to the surgical procedure and anesthesia. In this report we present two cases of scrotal skin necrosis after lidocaine with epinephrine injection using subcutaneous ring block technique prior to circumcision.
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spelling pubmed-44915702015-07-16 Epinephrine Injection Associated Scrotal Skin Necrosis Gul, Murat Kaynar, Mehmet Sekmenli, Tamer Ciftci, Ilhan Goktas, Serdar Case Rep Urol Case Report Male circumcision is among the most frequent surgical interventions throughout history. Although considered as a minor intervention, it may have complications ranging from insignificant to catastrophic. These complications can be attributed to the surgical procedure and anesthesia. In this report we present two cases of scrotal skin necrosis after lidocaine with epinephrine injection using subcutaneous ring block technique prior to circumcision. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4491570/ /pubmed/26185706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/187831 Text en Copyright © 2015 Murat Gul et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4491570/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/187831
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