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Case reports

• Tension viscerothorax: an important differential for tension pneumothorax (25 February, 2005)

  B McCann, A O’Gara
• Irreducible volar dislocations of the proximal interphalangeal joint (25 February, 2005)

  N V Deshmukh, S V Sonanis, J Stothard
• Low cost, high risk: accidental nutmeg intoxication (25 February, 2005)

  A K Demetriades, P D Wallman, A McGuiness, M C Gavalas
• Atlas: standard diagnostic tests for an unusual fracture (25 February, 2005)

  S Leigh-Smith, R Price, D Summers
• Descending necrotising mediastinitis: a report of misdiagnosis as thoracic aortic dissection (25 February, 2005)

  S-L Chou, C-H Chern, J-D Chen, C-K How, L-M Wang, C-H Lee
• A case of thoracic aortic dissection presenting as lateral pleuritic chest pain (25 February, 2005)

  H S H Hado, J H B Scarpello, T Barton, H Scarborough, T A Elhadd
• Pneumomediastinum secondary to an apparently trivial stab wound to the neck: the value of the Hamman’s sign and thorough radiological investigation (25 February, 2005)

  L Enguidanos, A Pfleiderer, W Smith, S Ramkumar
• Missed clavicular fracture; inadequate radiograph or occult fracture? (25 February, 2005)

  D Alao, H R Guly