Efficacy Trial of Eutectic Lidocaine/Prilocaine Cream 5% (EMLA) for Analgesia Prior to Cryotherapy of Verrucae Plantaris

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2010-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Aims:

The investigators main purpose is to assess the efficacy of analgesia provide by topical lidocaine/prilocaine cream 5% (EMLA)® to pared plantar warts prior to application of liquid nitrogen cryotherapy in adults.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: National University Hospital, Singapore
• Treatments: EMLA; Lidocaine; Prilocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Adult patients (at least 21 years old) with plantar warts

2. They must agree for liquid nitrogen cryotherapy for treatment of the plantar warts

3. The patients have to be capable of assessing pain using a visual analogue pain scale (VAS)

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients who had previously used EMLA cream® prior to cryotherapy of warts

2. Known allergic sensitivity to EMLA cream® or amide type of local anaesthetics.

3. Patients with sensory peripheral neuropathy of both lower limbs.