[Cases from the area between geriatrics and trauma surgery. Examples from the medical arbitration board].

Medical arbitration boards ("Schlichtungsstellen", expert panels for extrajudicial malpractice claim resolution) try to settle claims of suspected malpractice between patients and their physicians and to avoid court trials. Numerous studies found an increasing incidence of adverse events with rising age. Injuries that occur in the hospital are frequently beyond the specialty of the treating physician.

[The technic of the autologous transplantation of callous bone (author's transl)].

Primary or secondary grafting with autologous cancellous bone has become a routine procedure combined with osteosynthetic measures. At the Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Frankfurt 422 transplantations of autologous cancellous bone were performed during the last 6 years. The technique of obtaining the cancellous bone from the tibial head became highly standardized.