A 17 year old wrestler injures his elbow in a fall. He experiences a sharp, shooting, electric-type pain around the medial epicondyle of his left elbow a week later while wrestling. Clinical examination and investigation reveal no bony abnormality but ultrasonography confirms that the ulnar nerve has moved… Seema Biswas Editor-in-Chief Dislocation of the ulnar […]
Month: August 2011
Unusual Injuries: A near miss – an uncommon injury following a common mechanism
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 consequences of missing appendicitis during pregnancy
We say in our instructions to authors that there is no need to wait to come across a truly rare condition to write up as a case report. Here is the report a patient with acute appendicitis during pregnancy. We do, indeed, learn more from the discussion of common conditions that present in unusual circumstances […]
‘Quality and Safety in Medicine’ Series: Gastric ischaemia following a fall
Having an open mind: This case is of a gentleman with a series of unusual complications of a fall. The patient is managed by sequential teams of doctors of different specialisms and reflects, very much, the workings of the modern NHS. The presentation, alone, is unusual but the treatment at each stage and the response […]
Video gamer’s DVT
A man whose son recently died of a pulmonary embolus has starting campaigning for increased awareness of the risks of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) from the inactivity brought on by playing computer games. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-14350216 “After my research I saw there was no difference to Chris sitting at a desk on his Xbox and someone on […]