VOLUME  50
ISSUE  05
MAY  2009

SINGAPORE MEDICAL JOURNAL

D I S T I N G U I S H E D    E D I T O R    S E R I E S

Why the body matters: uses and abuses of the human body in modern medicine
Campbell A V


M E D I C I N E    I N    S T A M P S

Elie Metchnikoff (1845–1916): discoverer of phagocytosis
Tan S Y, Dee M K

E F F E C T I V E    M E D I C A L    W R I T I N G

Writing the discussion
Ng K H, Peh W C G
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O R I G I N A L    A R T I C L E S

Cost of medical education, financial assistance and medical school demographics in Singapore
Ng C L, Tambyah P A, Wong C Y

Singapore’s burden of disease and injury 2004
Phua H P, Chua A V L, Ma S, Heng D, Chew S K

Human immunodeficiency virus testing in patients with newly-diagnosed tuberculosis in Singapore
Low S Y, Eng P

Platelet count and neonatal sepsis: a high prevalence of Enterobacter spp.
Torkaman M, Afsharpaiman S, Hoseini M J, Moradi M, Mazraati A, Amirsalari S, Kavehmanesh Z

Therapeutic drug monitoring of amikacin in preterm and term infants
Siddiqi A, Khan D A, Khan F A, Razzaq A

CYP2C9 polymorphism: prevalence in healthy and warfarin-treated Malay and Chinese in Malaysia
Ngow H A, Wan Khairina W M N, Teh L K, Lee W L, Harun R, Ismail R, Salleh M Z

Hospitalised patients’ awareness of their rights: a cross-sectional survey from a tertiary care hospital on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia
Yousuf R M, Fauzi A R M, How S H, Akter S F U, Shah A

Efficacy and tolerability of lercanidipine in mild to moderate hypertension among Asians of different ethnic groups
Chia Y C, Yeoh E S H, Ng C J, Khoo E M, Chua C T

Stonefish envenomation presenting to a Singapore hospital
Ngo S Y A, Ong S H J, Ponampalam R

Endoscope-assisted myringoplasty
Yadav S P S, Aggarwal N, Julaha M, Goel A

Serum sex hormone levels in pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer patients
Ho C C K, Rohaizak M, Zulkifli S Z, Siti-Aishah M A, Nor-Aini U, Sharifah-Noor-Akmal S H

Male breast cancer: experience from a Malaysian tertiary centre
Ngoo K S, Rohaizak M, Naqiyah I, Shahrun Niza A S

Cost-effective central venous line for infants in the developing world
Saleem M M

Craniofacial anthropometric norms of Malays
Ngeow W C, Aljunid S T

MECP2 mutations in Malaysian Rett syndrome patients
Fong C B, Thong M K, Sam C K, Mohamed Noor M N, Ariffin R


C A S E    R E P O R T S

Percutaneous transcatheter aortic valve replacement: first transfemoral implant in Asia
Chiam P T L, Koh T H, Chao V T T, Lee C Y, See Tho V Y, Tan S Y, Lim S T,
Hwang N C, Sin Y K, Chua Y L

Cutaneous large B-cell lymphoma of the leg: presenting initially as mononeuritis multiplex
Ho S L M, Tang B Y M, Chai J, Tan S H

Nevus lipomatosus superficialis
Yap F B B

Recurrent acute pancreatitis due to a santorinicele in a young patient
Khan S A, Chawla T, Azami R

Pneumomediastinum, stomach wall and hepatic portal vein gas secondary to partial necrosis of the stomach wall
Hussain A, Mahmood H, Ansari T, El-Hasani S

Embryonated duck (“balut”) eggshell aspiration in a one-year-old boy
Lapeña J F Jr

An accessory tongue
Kumar S, Tiwary S K, Khanna A K

A tale of three divers: recompression therapy for divers with severe Type II decompression sickness with neurological deficits
Liow M H L, Chong S J, Kang W L

Primary headache associated with sexual activity
Anand K S, Dhikav V

Recurrent epistaxis as a presenting sign of androgen-sensitive metastatic prostate cancer
Lim H Y, Agarwal A M, Agarwal N, Ward J H

Prenatal diagnosis of the cri-du-chat syndrome: importance of ultrasonographical markers
Teoh X H, Tan T Y T, Chow K K, Lee I W

Langerhans cell histiocytosis with hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism
Ong C W M, Chua L S, Ng A, Low S Y

Extraskeletal ossifying chondroma in Hoffa’s fat pad: an unusual cause of anterior knee pain
Singh V K, Shah G, Singh P K, Saran D

Purple urine bag syndrome
Pillai B P, Chong V H, Yong A M L

The many faces of intraosseous haemangioma: a diagnostic headache
Ching B C, Wong J S L, Tan M H, Jara-lazaro A R


A N N O U N C E M E N T

Congratulations to the 2008 SMJ Best Research Paper Award Winners
Peh W C G


M E D I C A L    E D U C A T I O N

Clinics in diagnostic imaging (126)
Low K B, Huang J, Lim C H
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L E T T E R   T O    T H E    E D I T O R

In-flight medical emergency: an experience with Singapore Airlines
Wong K C


S M J    C M E    P R O G R A M M E

March 2009 answers

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