The jones fracture classification, management, outcome, and complications: a systematic review.

Background: The Jones fracture has been a topic of controversy ever since being first described by Sir Robert Jones himself in 1902. The aim of this review is to summarize the classification, management, outcome, and complications of this particular injury.

Methods: The authors conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature regarding the Jones fracture.

The management of the acute traumatic subungual haematoma: a systematic review.

There is no consensus regarding the optimal mode of managing the acute traumatic subungual haematoma in the hand. In this context the medical literature was searched systematically and the results analysed. The final dataset consisted of four articles.

Issues of consent in renal transplantation.

Background: Renal transplantation is a semi-elective procedure. The specific risks of surgery are well-known. Obtaining informed consent is a complex process made more complicated in transplantation by the long-term nature of some of the risks involved.

Prader-Willi syndrome in siblings, due to unbalanced translocation between chromosomes 15 and 22.

In a family in which the father carried a balanced translocation between chromosomes 15 and 22 two of his children had Prader-Willi syndrome and an unbalanced chromosome complement, having lost the proximal bands from the long arm of chromosome 15. His four other surviving children were normal but carried a balanced translocation.