Table I.

Patient and surgical data.

Parameter	Group C (n=20)	Group L (n=20)	P-value
Age (years)	40.6±8.3	41.1±7.4	0.826
Weight (kg)	59.1±5.1	58.2±4.9	0.552
Body height (cm)	162.3±3.8	161.4±3.1	0.412
Surgery duration (min)	54.9±20.7	53.2±18.5	0.792
Duration of anaesthesia (min)	59.4±21.8	59.9±16.7	0.936
Duration of pneumoperitoneum (min)	44.3±17.9	45.4±18.8	0.844

Values are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation. There were no significant differences between the groups. L, lidocaine; C, control.