Background: Leg ulcers are a common problem and the cause of significant morbidity. Their
treatment is estimated to cost£ 600m per year, placing an enormous burden on NHS …

Heterotopic pregnancy is a rare condition of coexisting intrauterine and extrauterine pregnancy
and can present as an acute abdomen. The management can be challenging as the …

A 51-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of numbness and cold intolerance in
the fingers of his dominant right hand. A painful ulcer at the tip of the right middle finger had …

The deep palmar arch is an arterial arcade formed by the terminal branch of the radial artery
(Fig. 4, thick white arrow) anastomosing with the deep branch of the ulnar artery (Fig. 4, thin …

OBJECTIVE--To assess the effect of a programme of postoperative community surveillance
on the rate of detection of wound complications after operation for inguinal hernia. DESIGN--…

Soft-tissue case 42. Presentation Page 1 A51-year-old man presented with a 2-month history
of numbness and cold intolerance in the fingers of his dominant right hand. A painful ulcer at …

Objective To compare the safety, operative time and feasibilty of FreeHand ® robot (FreeHand
Ltd, Guildford, United Kingdom) with manual camera control approach for Laparoscopic …

INTRODUCTION: Asplenic individuals have major difficulties coping with specific infections (eg
Streptococcus pneumoniae). This is an audit to look at a district general hospital's …

Diaphragm disease is a rare cause of intestinal obstruction that will be seen with increasing
frequency with the widespread use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). We …

This paper considers temporal aspects of a knowledge based system which holds information
on patients as they progress through their treatment in a vascular surgery department. It is …