Xray findings are not always easy to interpret – especially of the hand and foot where injuries are easily missed. Specialist input might avert might avert complications of missed injuries and it is not unusual in A+E for what starts as the informal seeking of an opinion to lead to specialist intervention that profoundly alters the clinical management and outcome of an injured patient.

Seema Biswas
Editor-in-Chief

A near miss: an uncommon injury following a common mechanism