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