Surgical stabilisation in a 13-year-old boy with traumatic flail chest.

Flail chest after blunt trauma to the chest has a high morbidity and mortality rate. Traumatic flail chest in children rarely occurs due to flexibility of the ribcage. We describe the case of a 13-year-old boy sustaining a flail chest after a high-energy trauma.

[A woman with abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting].

A 82-year-old female came to the emergency department because of abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. Physical examination was suggestive of ileus. CT imaging of the abdomen showed a sciatic hernia.

[A kickboxer with a painful wrist].

We report a case of a female kickboxer who presented to the emergency department with an isolated volar dislocation of the ulnar at the distal radioulnar joint. Familiarity with this type of lesion is essential for establishing the correct diagnosis.

Reasons for dropout in an in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection program.

Objective: To gain more insight into psychological aspects of dropping out from IVF-ICSI.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: University hospital-based tertiary care fertility clinic.