AIMS To determine which radiological investigations should be performed and which children should be investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS An all language literature search of original articles; from 1950-October 2005. Two reviewers independently reviewed each article. A third was carried out on disagreement. Each study was assessed using standardised data extraction, critical appraisal and evi...

To cite: Gomes C, Dias FMA, Franco L, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2015-211571 DESCRIPTION There is currently great focus on prevention of mineral and bone disorder from early stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children. Nowadays, the extreme complications of bone disorder in end-stage CKD are rarely seen in developed countries. H...

OBJECTIVES To examine presentations and prevalence of head injury among elder victims of blunt trauma and to estimate the prevalence of occult injuries associated with a normal level of consciousness, absence of neurologic deficit, and no evidence of significant skull fracture. METHODS The study population consisted of all patients aged 65 years or older enrolled in the National Emergency X-R...

The low-conducting human skull is known to have an especially large influence on electroencephalography (EEG) source analysis. Because of difficulties segmenting the complex skull geometry out of magnetic resonance images, volume conductor models for EEG source analysis might contain inaccuracies and simplifications regarding the geometry of the skull. The computer simulation study presented he...

a 25-yr-old iranian woman with incomplete abortion who was diagnosed and scheduled for dilatation and curettage procedures under general anesthesia. after premedication with fentanyl 50µg and midazolam 2mg and enough pre-oxygenation, anesthesia was induced by sodium thiopental 250 mg and succynilcholine 60 mg with mask ventilation. after completion of procedure, the patient had a period of lary...