Fetal neurosonography: should it be routine? Should it be detailed?

How high should it be?

Blunt renal artery trauma: how should it be treated, or rather, should it be treated?

Femoral pseudoaneurysm: How should it be treated?

We read with interest the article by Duszańska et al. [1] entitled ‘Predictors of successful iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm compression dressing repair’ recently published in the journal. The authors suggested that compression dressing repair (CPR) might serve as an alternative method of femoral pseudoaneurysm (FPA) management in patients with low forward and reverse velocities of the flow in pseudo...

Modern Mathematical Physics: What It Should Be

When somebody asks me, what I do in science, I call myself a specialist in mathematical physics. As I have been there for more than 40 years, I have some definite interpretation of this combination of words: " mathematical physics. " Cynics or purists can insist that this is neither mathematics nor physics, adding comments with a different degree of malice. Naturally, this calls for an answer, ...

Laparoscopic Appendectomy: Why It Should Be Done

OBJECTIVE Notwithstanding its widely perceived advantages, laparoscopic appendectomy has not yet met with universal acceptance. The aim of the present work is to illustrate retrospectively the results of a case-control experience with laparoscopic versus open appendectomy carried out at our institution. METHODS Between January 1993 and November 2000, 555 patients (M:F = 210:345; mean age 25.2...