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Case Reports
. 2007 Feb;89(2):242-3.
doi: 10.1302/0301-620X.89B2.18202.

Sciatic nerve injury caused by pre-operative intraneural injection of local anaesthetic during total hip replacement

H S Uppal  1 , S E Gwilym, E J P Crawfurd, R Birch
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Sciatic nerve injury caused by pre-operative intraneural injection of local anaesthetic during total hip replacement

H S Uppal et al. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2007 Feb.

Abstract

We report a case of iatrogenic sciatic nerve injury caused by pre-operative intraneural injection of local anaesthetic at total hip replacement. To our knowledge, this is unreported in the orthopaedic literature. We consider sacral nerve blockade in patients undergoing total hip replacement to be undesirable and present guidelines for the management of peri-operative sciatic nerve injury.

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