The complete removal of the cement mantle at revision arthroplasty can be extremely difficult. Some authors advise a 'cement-within-cement' revision technique in which a new layer of cement is applied to the old before insertion of the femoral component. We could find no long-term clinical data regarding the success of this procedure. In a simple biomechanical study, we examined the strength of...

Postnatal depression is one of the most common forms of psychiatric morbidity of child-bearing and causes a host of adverse psychosocial complications to the mother, the children, and the family. Recent studies have shown that 12% of local women have postnatal depression and most of them receive no meaningful medical attention. The validation of a local version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depres...

Ayedin et al2 compared the immunohistochemical profile of this tumour with RCC and described that papillary cystadenomas are positive for cytokeratin AE1/AE3 and EMA, CK7 and negative for CK20 and RCC immunostain. Four of 5 cases were negative for CD10. This staining profile contrasts with that reported for clear cell RCC, which are typically negative for CK7 and are immunoreactive for RCC and ...