From JRSM Short Reports

JRSM Short Reports is a new, online-only, peer reviewed, open-access companion journal to JRSM. JRSM Short Reports was launched in June 2010 and is rapidly developing into a leading international online resource of clinical papers, reviews and case reports on all aspects of improving patient care. As with other open access journals, authors are required to pay a small fee for published articles to cover the production costs and ensure that their article is freely available to readers. Articles published in JRSM Short Reports are now included in both PubMed and PubMed Central.

You can find JRSM Short Reports on the Internet at http://shortreports.rsmjournals.com To submit a clinical paper or case report to JRSM Short Reports visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/shorts. For submission inquiries contact Dr Kamran Abbasi, editor of JRSM and JRSM Short Reports, by email at [e-mail] Articles published in JRSM Short Reports will also be mentioned in the print edition of JRSM.

Here are the articles published in JRSM Short Reports in April 2012:

Research Papers

• Bismil MSK, Bismil QMK, Harding D, Harris P, Lamyman E, Sansby L. Transition to total one-stop wide-awake hand surgery service-audit: a retrospective review. J R Soc Med Sh Rep 2012; 3:23; doi:10.1258/shorts.2012.012019

• Manjaly JG, Reece-Smith AM, Sivaloganathan SS, Thuraisamy C, Smallwood KLM, Jonas E, Longman RJ. Improving dosing of gentamicin in the obese patient: a 3-cycle drug chart and case note audit. J R Soc Med Sh Rep 2012 3:25; doi:10.1258/shorts.2012.011131

Case Reports

• Brahma A, Beadsmoore C, Dhatariya K. The oldest case of Marine-Lenhart syndrome? J R Soc Med Sh Rep 2012 3:21; doi:10.1258/shorts.2011.011164

• Chembala J, Natarajan I, Roffe C. Thrombolysis in a stroke patient with Marfan syndrome. J R Soc Med Sh Rep 2012 3:22; doi:10.1258/shorts.2012.012001

• Khandelwal R, Jain I, Punia S, Singh A, Yadav S, Sharma P, Singh S, Mohanty PC. Primary actinomycosis of the thigh – a rare soft tissue infection with review of literature. J R Soc Med Sh Rep 2012 3:24; doi:10.1258/shorts.2012.011137

• Rees GJG, Britton DC, Malcolm GP, Rees M. Surgery for widely disseminated breast cancer: prolonged control by excision of metastases.J R Soc Med Sh Rep 2012 3:26; doi:10.1258/shorts.2012.011162

• Gupta S, Correa G, Al-Akraa M, Nicol D, Burns A. Managing a massive renal angiomyolipoma. J R Soc Med Sh Rep 2012 3:27; doi:10.1258/shorts.2011.011139