Pulmonary gas embolism after parotid resection.

Pulmonary gas embolism can have very variable consequences and may become a real challenge for anesthesiologists. We hereby report a case of major pulmonary embolism which took place under unusual circumstances and was documented echocardiographically.

Uncemented and custom made hip prostheses in patients younger than 50 years.

One hundred and nine hip arthroplasties using custom cementless stems performed in patients 50 years of age or younger were reviewed after a minimum follow-up of two years. The etiologies included mainly major deformation of the upper femoral metaphysis such as CDH or after osteotomy and some cases of AVN or post-traumatic osteoarthritis. Two stems (1,8%) were revised and the overall clinical and radiographic failure rate was 5,5%.