Soft and Firm Alloplastic Implants in Rhinoplasty: Why, When and How to Use Them: A Review of 311 Cases.

Background: Modern rhinoplasty is not just a reduction procedure. An optimal nasal esthetic result occasionally requires augmenting the nasal tip, the dorsum or the lateral wall with autografts or alloplasts. A large number of nasal implant types have been reported in the medical literature.

Acceptability and reliability of multiple mini interviews for admission to otolaryngology residency.

Objectives/hypothesis: To evaluate the acceptability and reliability of the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) for the selection of applicants to an Otolaryngology-Head and Neck (OTL-HNS) residency program.

Study Design: Prospective observational study.

Methods: Canadian medical graduates applying to the OTL-HNS residency program at McGill University in 2011 and 2012 underwent a 7-station MMI.

Discrimination of falls and blows in blunt head trauma: a multi-criteria approach.

In the discrimination of falls versus blows, the hat brim line (HBL) rule is mentioned in several textbooks as the most useful single criterion. Recent studies, however, have found that the HBL rule is only moderately valid and that its use on its own is not recommended. The purpose of this 6-year retrospective study was to find additional individually useful criteria in the distinction of falls from blows.

Skull fracture with brain expulsion in a one-level jumping-fall.

Here presented is the case of a one-level jumping-fall with extensive skull fractures and brain expulsion. The body was found on the basement floor at the foot of the stairs. At the autopsy, the skull was extensively fractured, with about half of the brain expulsed several feet away from the body.