[Comparison between intra and para cervical anaesthesia in therapeutic abortion (author's transl)]

Therapeutic abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy was carried out as an out-patient procedure under local anaesthesia in 40 women. The intracervical injection of 1% mepivacaine resulted in satisfactory freedom from pain just as the paracervical injection. There was no dignificant difference in the intensity of pain in intracervical and paracervical local anaesthesia. The dilatation of the cervical canal was the determining factor for pain during the procedure. The intracervical and the paracervical local block are equally suitable for out-patient therapeutic abortion in our series.