Canadian Journal of Surgery articles from December 2005

Canadian Journal of Surgery archives from December 2005

Editor's view/Mot du redacteur.(Editorial)
December 1, 2005... My Editor's View was late for this issue. I received numerous reminders from the people at CMA Media that the deadline for the piece had passed--a delay that as an editor I would not tolerate from other contributors to the journal! Why was I...

Polling surgeons.(Quill on Scalpel/Plume et scalpel)
December 1, 2005... The study by Kaspar and colleagues of surgeons' attitudes to intra-articular steroid hip injection, which is published in this issue of the Canadian Journal of Surgery (page 461), (1) is worthy of consideration by all surgeons, not just...

Radiology for the surgeon: musculoskeletal case 36.(Continuing Medical Education/Formation medicale continue)
December 1, 2005... Presentation A 59-year-old man has noticed lately a grating sensation, especially when squatting, as if he had a grain of sand under his left kneecap. Physical examination revealed no abnormality apart from minimal swelling. Plain...

Total knee arthroplasty in Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome.(Case Notes/Notes de cas)
December 1, 2005... Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome is a congenital disease of arteriovenous malformations. A MEDLINE search of the literature revealed no reports of total knee arthroplasty in this disease. We report one such case. Case report A 35-year-old...

Soft-tissue textiloma: a potential diagnostic pitfall.(Case notes/Notes de cas)
December 1, 2005... The reported frequency of accidentally forgotten foreign bodies in surgery varies between 1 in 1000 and 1 in 10 000 interventions. (1) The real incidence of retained gauze is hard to determine because of difficulty in obtaining an accurate...