# Local Versus General Anaesthesia in Stapled Hemorrhoidectomy

> **NCT00512044** · PHASE4 · WITHDRAWN · sponsor: **University of Lausanne Hospitals**

## Conditions studied

- Hemorrhoids

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Local anesthesia (pudendal block)
- **PROCEDURE:** general anesthesia (spinal and general)

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00512044
- **Lead sponsor:** University of Lausanne Hospitals
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE4
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** WITHDRAWN
- **Start date:** 2007-10
- **Primary completion:** 2007-11
- **Final completion:** 2008-05
- **Target enrollment:** 0 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** slow recruitment, internal problems with the study protocol
- **Last updated:** 2020-03-02


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00512044

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00512044, "Local Versus General Anaesthesia in Stapled Hemorrhoidectomy". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00512044. Licensed CC0.

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