Patient Satisfaction with Knee Arthroscopy under Local Anaesthesia
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Arthroscopy under local anaesthesia.
Sixty patients underwent arthroscopy of the knee as day cases using a local anaesthetic technique. This provided satisfactory operating conditions and high patient acceptability.
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