Radiologic discrepancies in diagnosis of fractures in a Dutch teaching emergency department: a retrospective analysis.

Background: Missed fractures in the emergency department (ED) are common and may lead to patient morbidity.

Aim: To determine the rate and nature of radiographic discrepancies between ED treating physicians, radiologists and trauma/orthopaedic surgeons and the clinical consequences of delayed diagnosis. A secondary outcome measurement is the timeframe in which most fractures were missed.

Tape versus cast for non-operative treatment of primary patellar dislocation: a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: We hypothesized that taping results in better short-term functional outcome and comparable redislocation rates.

Methods: In a prospective randomised clinical trial, 18 patients with a primary patellar dislocation ≥18 years old without accompanying fractures or previous surgery to the knee were included. After 1 week of dorsal splinting, they were randomized into two groups: taping and cylinder cast immobilization.

[Compartment syndrome following laparoscopic procedures in the lithotomy position].

A laparoscopic tubectomy in the lithotomy position was performed on a healthy 31-year-old woman, as treatment following an extra-uterine pregnancy. The operation proceeded without complications and took 60 minutes. However, on the third day following surgery the woman was diagnosed with compartment syndrome, which was treated with three-compartment fasciotomy.