Medical Professional Liability in Psychiatry.

Introduction: The safety of patients and the risk of malpractice claims are overriding concerns in medicine and psychiatry.

Material And Methods: Claims for alleged malpractice in psychiatry managed by the Council of Colleges of Physicians of Catalonia between 1986 and 2009 were analyzed to evaluate their clinical and legal characteristics.

Results: Ninety-four malpractice claims were found in a 23-year period, mainly claims related to diagnosis (63.

The arterial supply of the human spinal cord: a new approach to the arteria radicularis magna of Adamkiewicz.

The arteria radicularis magna (Adamkiewicz's artery) was studied in 30 human spinal cords after arterial injection. The artery was present in all cases, between T8 and L2, and was identified by its diameter and position. The arteria radicularis magna was the main blood supply to the lowest region of the spinal cord.

Diffuse axonal injury after severe head trauma. A clinico-pathological study.

Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI) is a well known entity that affects many patients with severe head trauma. Classically DAI has been considered the pathological substrate of those cases rendered unconscious at the moment of impact and in which the CT scan does not show mass lesions. Diffuse axonal damage is almost always related to mechanisms of injury in which the rotational acceleration produces shear and tensile strains of high magnitude.