[Analgesic treatment of paresthetic meralgia. Observation of 12 clinical cases]

Abstract

The Author report the personal experience of 12 clinical cases of "meralgia paresthetica", an unusual neurological disease of the lateral femorocutaneous nerve of the thigh often accompained by strong pain, disesthesia and other similar symptoms. The block of the nerve is done with a "nerve detector" connected to a special needle and with the administration of a mixture of bupivacaine 1% with glucose (hyperbaric) and a fluorurate steroid, the triamcinolone acetonide. The results obtained with this technique appear to be better than a similar block without the "nerve detector" and a mixture of bupivacaine 0.5% and acetate metylprednisolone. Moreover the fenolic block of two particular cases resistant to any kind of therapy are described.