Sport injuries in the paediatric and adolescent patient: a growing problem.

With an increasing number of paediatric and adolescent athletes presenting with injuries due to overuse, a greater demand is put on clinicians and radiologists to assess the specific type of injury. Repetitive forces applied to the immature skeleton cause a different type of injury than those seen in adults due to the differences in vulnerability of the musculoskeletal system, especially at the site of the growth cartilage. Intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors all play a role in the development of overuse injuries.

Postoperative management of nasal vestibular stenosis: the custom-made vestibular device.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of a custom-made postoperative vestibular device on the occurrence and severity of restenosis.

Design: This was a retrospective study conducted at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Center for Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Academic Medical Center. In this tertiary care center between January 1994 and December 2000, 52 patients treated for nasal vestibular stenosis received a vestibular device directly postoperatively, with the intention to decrease the risk of restenosis.

[Infections with Mycobacterium kansasii in the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam: the changing clinical spectrum since the start of the HIV epidemic].

Objective: Inventory of patients with a Mycobacterium kansasii infection.

Design: Descriptive, retrospective.

Setting: Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.