VOLUME  48
ISSUE  07
JULY  2007

SINGAPORE MEDICAL JOURNAL

E D I T O R I A L

Make TARGET your target
Peh W C G


M E D I C I N E    I N    S T A M P S

Joseph Lister (1827-1912): father of antisepsis
Tan S Y, Tasaki A


O R I G I N A L    A R T I C L E S

Expression of survivin and its clinicopathological correlations in invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast
Al-Joudi F S, Iskandar A Z, Hasnan J, Rusli J, Kamal Y, Imran A K, Ahmed M, Zakaria J

Cefepime plus amikacin as an initial empirical therapy of febrile neutropenia in paediatric cancer patients
Hamidah A, Lim Y S, Zulkifli S Z, Zarina A L, Nordiah A J, Jamal R

Comparison of clinical with pathological nodal staging from systematic mediastinal lymph node dissection in early resectable non-small cell lung cancer
Chong C F, Khoo K L, Lim T K, Chang A Y, Lim H L, Lee C N, Wong P S

Diagnostic yield of flexible bronchoscopic procedures in lung cancer patients according to tumour location
Liam C K, Pang Y K, Poosparajah S

Human leukocyte class 1 antigen alleles A2 and A11 are not associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in West Malaysia
Lee L K, Tan E L, Gopala K, Sam C K

Hepatic resection for colorectal liver metastases
Lau W Y, Lai E C H

Follicular thyroid carcinoma presenting as axial skeletal metastases
Sreedharan S, Pang C E, Chan G S W, Soo K C, Lim D T H

Proliferation, angiogenesis and apoptosis-associated proteins are molecular targets for chemoprevention of MNNG-induced gastric carcinogenesis by ethanolic Ocimum sanctum leaf extract
Manikandan P, Vidjaya Letchoumy P, Prathiba D, Nagini S

Early experience in free tissue transfer in the reconstruction of head and neck defects
Lim C M, Lim J, Loh K S, Tan L K S

Outbreak of measles in primary school students with high first dose MMR vaccination coverage
Ong G, Rasidah N, Wan S, Cutter J

Rapid detection and serotyping of dengue virus by multiplex RT-PCR and real-time SYBR green RT-PCR
Yong Y K, Thayan R, Chong H T, Tan C T, Sekaran S D

Evaluating the sensitivity of a commercial dengue NS1 antigen-capture ELISA for early diagnosis of acute dengue virus infection
Kumarasamy V, Chua S K, Hassan Z, Wahab A H A, Chem Y K, Mohamad M, Chua K B


C A S E    R E P O R T S

Glossopharyngeal schwannoma: diagnostic and therapeutic aspects
Agrawal A, Pandit L, Bhandary S, Makannavar J H, Srikrishna U

Spontaneous acute subdural haemorrhage, cerebral and pulmonary metastases in a complete mole
Agrawal A, Agrawal C S, Kumar A, Kumar M, Yadav R

Pleuropulmonary blastoma: transition from type I (cystic) to type III (solid)
Shrivastava R, Saha A, Mehera B, Batra P, Gagane N M

Endovascular stent graft treatment of leaking thoracic aortic tuberculous pseudoaneurysm
Loh Y J, Tay K H, Mathew S, Tan K L, Cheah F K, Sin Y K

Primary chondrosarcoma of the lung with cutaneous and skeletal metastases
Shah N D, Diwanji S R

Myelolipoma within a non-functional adrenal cortical adenoma
Ong K, Tan K B, Putti T C

Clear cell sarcoma of the rectus sheath
Xu G G, Chong Y L, Cheong M O

Favourable response to splenectomy in familial myelodysplastic syndrome
Abdul-Wahab J, Naznin M, Suhaimi A, Amir-Hamzah A R

Invasive Streptococcus agalactiae septic arthritis as an initial presentation of tonsillar carcinoma
Lee H C, Chong Y Y E, Cheng Y K

Fibroadenoma with squamous metaplasia
Devi P M, Singh L R, Gatphoh E D

A rare variant of Ellis van Creveld syndrome
Chakraborty P P, Bandyopadhyay D, Mandal S K, Subhasis R C


M E D I C A L    E D U C A T I O N

Clinics in diagnostic imaging (117)
Teo L L S, Venkatesh S K, Ho K Y
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P I C T O R I A L    E S S A Y

Biomechanics of road traffic collision injuries: a clinician's perspective
Eid H O, Abu-Zidan F M
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B O O K    R E V I E W

Voice Conservation Surgery for Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer
Soo K C


T A R G E T

TARGET
Pwee K H (ed)


L E T T E R    T O   T H E    E D I T O R

Issues on curriculum change: are they unique to Argentina?
D'Ottavio A E


S M J    C M E    P R O G R A M M E

May 2007 answers

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