Vocal function following discharge from intensive care.

Introduction: There is growing interest in the long term outcomes of critical care. The degree of vocal morbidity suffered by patients surviving intensive care admission has not previously been reported.

Objective: To determine the degree of subjective, patient-reported vocal morbidity following discharge from intensive care.

Scaphoid and pronator fat stripes are unreliable soft tissue signs in the detection of radiographically occult fractures.

Aim: To determine the clinical value of scaphoid and pronator fat stripes in identifying occult underlying scaphoid and distal radius fractures, respectively.

Materials And Methods: In our department, all patients with clinically suspected scaphoid fractures and normal scaphoid series of radiographs undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the wrist. We selected 50 cases with unequivocal MRI evidence of scaphoid fracture, 50 cases with distal radius fracture and 50 cases with no MRI evidence of bony injury.

Magnetic resonance imaging of suspected scaphoid fractures using a low field dedicated extremity MR system.

Aim: To determine whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using a dedicated extremity system could be utilized for the routine assessment of patients with a clinically suspected scaphoid fracture, and to determine the most cost-effective timing of MRI for these patients.

Materials And Methods: MRI of the wrist using a 0.2T extremity MR system was performed in two groups of patients.