VOLUME  33
ISSUE  01
FEBRUARY  1992

SINGAPORE MEDICAL JOURNAL

E D I T O R I A L

Current Diagnosis and Treatment of Rhinosinusitis - Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS)
R E Stanley


L E A D I N G    A R T I C L E

Medical Intensive Care in the General Hospital
K M Fock


O R I G I N A L    A R T I C L E S

Medical Intensive Care Unit Utilization in an Acute Teaching Hospital
A C K Fok, Y T Tan, Y Y Ong

Mortality Patterns in a Medical Intensive Care Unit
P C T Eng, H H Chng, P H Feng

The Toxic Strept Syndrome: Two Case Reports
H C Tan, H L Lim, T K Lim, T B Chan, H L Chan

Outcome of Very Low Birthweight Neonates in a Developing Country: Experience from a large Malaysian Maternity Hospital
N Y Boo

The Effect of Prenatal Diagnosis on the Incidence of Down Syndrome Livebirths in the Singapore General Hospital
G S H Yeo, A A Md Ali

Informed Patient Consent - Historical Perspective and A Clinician's View
N W Kour, A Rauff

Analysis of RAS Gene Mutations in Acute Myeloid Leukemia by the Polymerase Chain Reaction and Oligonucleotide Probes
Y M Chin, J J Bosco, C L Koh

Transvenous Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Atrioventricular Accessory Pathways
C P Lau, Y T Tai

Attitudes to AIDS and Sexual Behaviour Among a Cohort of Medical Students in Singapore
K Singh, Y F Fong, S S Ratnam

The Mentakab Hypertension Study Project Part V - Drug Compliance in Hypertensive Patients
T O Lim, B A Ngah, R Abdul Rahman, A Suppiah, F Ismail, P Chako, H H Na

Psychiatric Morbidity in the Families of Paranoid and Non-paranoid Schizophrenia Patients
S L Varma, I Sharma, S Chugh


I N V I T E D    A R T I C L E S

Pregnancy in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
O A C Viegas, M L Boey

Diagnosing Low Back Pain
H K Wong

Psychological Aspects of Rheumatic Diseases
L L Ng


E L E C T R O C A R D I O G R A P H I C    C A S E

Broad Complex Tachycardia - Supraventricular with Aberrancy or Ventricular Tachycardia?
W S Teo


C A S E    R E P O R T S

Placental Chorioangioma: A Case Report and Review
S A Tan, S H Yeo

Acute Myocardial Infarction After Blunt Chest Injury
P Kannan, N Saradha, R Jeyamalar

Liver Rupture in Pregnancy: A Typical Case?
H Cheung, H Hamzah

Psychiatric Syndromes in Pernicious Anaemia - A Case Report
S M Ko, T C Liu


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