Clinical Efficacy of Pulsed Radiofrequency Combined with Intravenous Lidocaine Infusion in the Treatment of Subacute Herpes Zoster Neuralgia

Table 1

Comparison of general information between two groups of patients.

Parameters	Control	Treated	t-value	value
Age	63.70 ± 2.94	66.05 ± 2.08	83.53	0.74
Sex (male/female)	32	32	0.5630	0.45
Male	18 (54.55%)	15 (45.45%)
Female	14 (45.16%)	17 (54.84%)
Duration (days)	50.10 ± 9.86	51.46 ± 8.46	40.67	0.37
Involved nerve
Cervical nerve (%)	9 (28.1%)	3 (9.4%)
Thoracic nerve (%)	11 (34.4%)	11 (34.4%)
Lumbosacral nerve (%)	8 (25.0%)	15 (46.9%)
Others (%)	4 (12.5%)	3 (9.4%)
Comorbidities	14	16		0.46
Diabetes (%)	6	8
Hypertension (%)	6	5
Immune disease (%)	2	3

Note. There is no statistically significant comparison between the general data of the two groups ().