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2016
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Tab 1
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Clinical Study
Extrapedicular Infiltration Anesthesia as an Improved Method of Local Anesthesia for Unipedicular Percutaneous Vertebroplasty or Percutaneous Kyphoplasty
Table 1
Patients’ demographic characteristics and the results in the two groups.
CLIA + EPIA group
CLIA group
value
Number of cases
20
24
Sex, male : female
4 : 16
7 : 17
0.484
†
Age (yrs)
72.4 ± 9.5 (62~89)
70.5 ± 8.2 (60~87)
0.287
Body mass index (BMI) (kg/m
2
)
22.9 ± 2.7 (18.8~28.3)
22.6 ± 2.8 (17.3~28.9)
0.785
Injured vertebral
T12
5
9
L1
5
7
L2
4
5
L3
6
1
L4
0
2
VAS
2.5 ± 0.7
4.3 ± 1.0
0.001
Additional sedative analgesia
0
1
Nerve root adverse effects
0
0
Chi-square test.