Ma. Lavelle, SURGICAL-TREATMENT OF CYSTIC SWELLINGS OF THE SCROTUM UNDER LOCAL-ANESTHESIA, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 78(6), 1996, pp. 541-543
Fifty-one patients underwent surgery for symptomatic epididymal cysts
or hydroceles, using local anaesthesia with no sedation and no diather
my. Of the patients surveyed, 91% found the procedure comfortable or u
ncomfortable, 9% finding it painful. Most patients (89%) were fully re
covered after 3 weeks. None of the patients had to have operative inte
rvention for complications. Treatment of these conditions under local
anaesthesia is cost-effective, and can be performed with the minimum o
f special equipment on patients who might otherwise be unfit for a gen
eral anaesthetic.