Simply Do Not Go Snowboarding 2 Weeks after Augmentation

Simply Do Not Go Snowboarding 2 Weeks after Augmentation

Bone defects following curettage do not necessarily need augmentation

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The natural pattern of bone healing in large bony defects following curettage alone as treatment of benign bone tumors around the knee is not well reported. We analyzed the outcome in 146 patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS 146 patients with over 18 months of follow-up who underwent curettage without bone substitute filling or bone grafting for a benign tumor in the distal f...

Electrocardiogram after 2 weeks of diarrhea.

A 41-year-old man, known to be HIV positive for at least 3 years (CD4 count on this admission, 134/mm3; reference, 228–2290), presented with a 2-week history of sore throat, dysphagia, odynophagia, change in his voice, fatigue, and exertional dyspnea. Only later did he admit to having 4 to 6 large watery stools per day for the same length of time. An electrocardiogram (ECG) recorded on admissio...

Neck pain and anxiety do not always go together

Chronic pain and psychosocial distress are generally thought to be associated in chronic musculoskeletal disorders such as non-specific neck pain. However, it is unclear whether a raised level of anxiety is necessarily a feature of longstanding, intense pain amongst patient and general population sub-groups. In a cohort of 70 self-selected female, non-specific neck pain sufferers, we observed r...

Do not go gentle: intractable value differences in hospices.

As hospices have evolved and grown, from small community-based cottage institutions to larger and more complex healthcare providers, they have begun to acquire staff with characteristics that are significantly different from those of their founding members. Because the timeline of the modern hospice movement is so short, many still have founding members at work, and institutions find themselves...