The combination of a saphenous nerve block with single-dose LIA offered better pain relief on the day of surgery than LIA alone.

Injection of 15 ml dye was sufficient to spread throughout the adductor canal and beyond both proximally and distally. Distinct ultrasonographic features could be identified separating a subsartorial injection from an injection within the adductor canal with consequent differences in the spread.

To investigate the hypothesis that interleukin 1 initially stimulates and then suppresses beta-cell function and that this sequential effect is directly re-

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