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Anesthesia update #21. Use of local anesthetic with the hip arthrogram as a diagnostic aid
1Division of Orthopaedics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
Orthopaedic Review
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Intra-articular instillation of lidocaine into the hip joint is used as an adjunct in the diagnosis of some confusing hip problems. If the local anesthetic relieves the patient's symptoms, then arthroplasty--in its broadest meaning--is also likely to relieve the patient's symptoms.