The use of nasogastric tubes after elective abdominal surgery remains standard practice for many surgeons. Such tubes, however, cause much discomfort and are associated with significant morbidity. This paper reviews the arguments for and against nasogastric intubation, and finds little evidence to support its continued routine use.

We report a patient with a patellar metastasis from a malignant melanoma. Only 16 other cases have been previously described in detail in the literature. A lytic lesion in the patella is most often caused by a benign tumour, but a primary or secondary malignant tumour has to be excluded.

We report the first case of rupture of a false aneurysm of the iliac artery due to retrograde passage of a ureteric stent.

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