Christmas tree aspiration

Is described in this article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal: the patient was a 21/2 year old boy.

The same issue of that journal also has a paper on the occupational diseases associated with being Santa Claus, and one on the incidence of nodding off at scientific sessions. There is also one on how to read pharmaceutical advertisements, that well known source of medical information (not that any of the readers of this blog would do such a thing, of course).