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In Fig. 1a, b of this paper the symbols for controls and piroxicam patches were transposed. The authors regret that this error was not recognized at the proof stage.

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The editor and publishers regret that the sentence (on page 258, column 1, paragraph 2) commencing ‘We use compound sodium lactate solution (500 mL) given as a preload over 10 min before the intrathecal injection of hyperbaric bupivacaine’ should have read ‘Loughrey and colleagues [1] used compound sodium lactate solution (500 mL) given as a preload over 10 min before the intrathecal injection of hyperbaric bupivacaine’.