EDITORIAL
Pulmonary puzzles
Pulmonary puzzles
1 Associate Editor, Thorax
2 Editor-in-Chief, Thorax
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr W Wedzicha
Thorax editorial office, BMJ Journals, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR, UK; thorax@bmjgroup.com
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Case reports are a useful method of identifying unique case presentations, often with important clinical caveats. Unfortunately, with the pressure on space, especially in high impact journals such as Thorax, the ability to accept case reports for publication is extremely low. A number of years ago Thorax, recognising its inability to publish more than a minority of case reports submitted, introduced what has transpired to be the very successful "Images in Thorax" section. Despite this, the pressure to publish case reports continues, unabated.
Recognising that there will continue to be a need for innovative case reports, especially those that speculate on innovative new hypotheses, we feel that there is a role for a more educational format for case reports. Therefore, unless a case report has unique content and, in particular, provides data not previously reported, it should be changed into a "Pulmonary puzzles". These puzzles will
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