Showing posts with label v-y advancement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label v-y advancement. Show all posts

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Nuggets for February 28

Ah, the last day of the month...and working evenings again! What fun. I can think of better ways to spend my evenings, but in mere days, yours truly will get a vacation....seven days straight away from the big house.

Here are a few things that have been floating around in my world lately. Enjoy them and the rest of your weekend.

Sometimes I think they should call our unit, "Flaps-R-Us." This is a very common surgery to remedy the big bugaboo of rehab nursing (pressure sores) when all else fails. V-y advancement flap is a one way of doing it.

We don't see this much, but someone saw it on an x-ray recently: joint effusion.

Think you're seeing two thumbnails? We had one guy who said this. No, he wasn't losing it, he just has a case of onchomycosis.

Some very interesting lab tests I saw on a heme-onc report that we don't always see: