VOLUME  48
ISSUE  05
MAY  2007

SINGAPORE MEDICAL JOURNAL

E D I T O R I A L

Women's mental health: an overrated issue or unrecognised need?
Chen H

Of pruritus and terrorism
Lateef F


M E D I C I N E    I N    S T A M P S

Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893): pathologist who shaped modern neurology
Tan S Y, Shigaki D


R E V I E W    A R T I C L E

Gender differences in mental health
Afifi M


O R I G I N A L    A R T I C L E S

Phenol and menthol in the treatment of chronic skin lesions following mustard gas exposure
Panahi Y, Davoodi S M, Khalili H, Dashti-Khavidaki S, Bigdeli M

Leukoaraiosis as a predictor for mortality and morbidity after an acute ischaemic stroke
Thein S S, Hamidon B B, Teh H S, Raymond A A

Determinants of length of stay during post-stroke rehabilitation in community hospitals
Saxena S K, Koh G C H, Ng T P, Fong N P, Yong D

Heart failure cohort in Singapore with a defined criteria: clinical characteristics and prognosis in a multi-ethnic hospital-based cohort in Singapore
Leong G K T, Goh P P, Chang B C, Lingamanaicker J

Effect of lycopene from cooked tomatoes on serum antioxidant enzymes, lipd peroxidation rate and lipid profile in coronary heart disease
Bose K S C, Agrawal B K

Exchange transfusion in neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia: experience in Isfahan, Iran
Badiee Z

Evaluation of neonatal indirect hyperbilirubinaemia at Zanjan Province of Iran in 2001-2003: prevalence of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
Koosha A, Rafizadeh B

Periprocedural complicatiobs associated with envascular embolisation of intracranial ruptured aneurysms with matrix coils
Deng J, Zhao Z, Gao G

Ascites in the state of Qatas: aetiology and diagnostic value of ascitic fluid analysis
Kahn F Y

Diagnostic markers in the structures of human biological liquids
Shabalin V N, Shatokhina S N

Cytokine gene polymorphisms and the pathology of chronic gastritis
Moorchung N, Srivastava A N, Gupta N K, Ghoshal U C, Achyut B R, Mittal B


C A S E    R E P O R T S

Intracardiac blood-filled cysts of the heart: a rare cause of embolic stroke
Jacob J J, Jose J, John B

Low velocity traumatic dissection of the internal carotid artery presenting as a stroke after a slash injury
Agrawal A, Kumar A, Tiwari A, Sinha A, Patel A

Induction of atrioventricular nodal reentry tachycardia with intravenous adenosine
Dora S K, Namboodiri N, Valaparambil A K, Tharakan J A

Ebstein's anomaly, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and rheumatic mitral stenosis: role for combined electrophysiological and surgical management
Namboodiri N, Rajeev K, Dora S K, Tharakan J A

Congenital diaphragmatic eventration in an adult: a diagnostic dilemma
Mantoo S K, Mak K

Dislocation after total knee arthroplasty
Wazir N N, Shan Y, Mukundala V V, Gunalan R

Extended double pedicle free tensor fascia latae myocutaneous flap for abdominal wall reconstruction
Dorai A A, Halim A S

Two cases of isochromosome 18q syndrome
Pal S, Siti M I, Ankathil R, Zilfalil B A

Progressive pseudorheumatoid chondrodysplasia of childhood
Shivanand G, Jain V, Lal H

Intracranial metastases from carcinoma of the cervix
Agrawal A, Kumar A, Sinha A K, Kumar M, Pandey S R, Khaniya S

Clinical usefulness of endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration in the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer
Chua T S, Sng C, Chatterjee D, Poh W T

Akinetic mutism after right internal watershed infarction
Lim Y C, Ding C S L, Kong K H


M E D I C A L    E D U C A T I O N

Clinics in diagnostic imaging (116).
Pan J Y, Seto K Y, Wai C T
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Electrographical case. Elderly man with acute breathlessness
Sim D, Chia S, Ching C K, Chua T
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L E T T E R S    T O   T H E    E D I T O R

Psychiatric morbidity in patients referred to an insomnia clinic
Afifi M

Authors' reply
Mahendran R, Subramaniam M, Chan Y H

Can chlorpheniramine cause serotonin syndrome?
Karamanakos P N

Author's reply
Alisky J M

Clinical spectrum of Parkinson's disease
Afifi M

Authors' reply
Khealani B A, Baig S M

Mucormycosis in patients with complicated cirrhosis
Senanayake S N

Authors' reply
Abbas Z, Jafri W, Rasool S, Abid S, Hameed I

Published hospital bill sizes and healthcare costs: what was the effect of SARS?
Hsu L Y, Tambyah P A

Authors' reply
Wong C Y, Wu E, Wong T Y


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