VOLUME  50
ISSUE  11
NOVEMBER  2009

SINGAPORE MEDICAL JOURNAL

S P E C I A L    A N N O U N C E M E N T

Singapore declaration on equitable access to health information in the Western Pacific Region


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

Nurturing young writers: sustaining quality, not quantity
Looi L M


M E D I C I N E    I N    S T A M P S

William Osler (1849–1919): medical educator and humanist
Tan S Y, Uyehara P

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

Dealing with returned manuscripts
Peh W C G, Ng K H
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O R I G I N A L    A R T I C L E S

The use of anti-D immunoglobulins for rhesus prophylaxis: audit on knowledge and practices among obstetricians
Wee W W, Kanagalingam D

Methotrexate treatment for ectopic pregnancy at the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore
Thia E W H, Loi K, Wang J J, Siow A

Coitus and orgasm at term: effect on spontaneous labour and pregnancy outcome
Tan P C, Yow C M, Omar S Z

Emergency unscheduled returns: can we do better?
Kuan W S, Mahadevan M

Hearing rehabilitation in congenital canal atresia
Mazita A, Wan Fazlina W H, Abdullah A, Goh B S, Saim L

Tympanometric values in young Malay adults: preliminary data
Abdul Wahab N A, Rashid M F N

Autoimmune hypophysitis: a single centre experience
Menon S K, Sarathi V, Bandgar T R, Menon P S, Goel N, Shah N S

Colorectal cancer: incidence and trend in Brunei Darussalam
Chong V H, Abdullah M S, Telisinghe P U, Jalihal A

Comparing histopathological classification with MYCN, 1p36 and 17q status detected by fluorescence in situ hybridisation from 14 untreated primary neuroblastomas in Singapore
Yong M H, Hwang W S, Knight L A, Fung W, Chan M Y, Seow W T, Chui C H

Musculoskeletal injuries among Malaysian badminton players
Shariff A H, George J, Ramlan A A


C A S E    R E P O R T S

Granulomatous meningitis
Loy S T, Tan C W T

Frontal mucocoele secondary to nasal polyposis: an unusual complication
Chew Y K, Noorizan Y, Khir A, Brito-Mutunayagam S, Prepageran N

Multiple epidermal cysts occcurring in a tattoo
Koh M J A, Teo R Y L, Liu T T

Imperforate hymen: cause of lower abdominal pain in teenage girls
Mou J W C, Tang P M Y, Chan K W, Tam Y H, Lee K H

Contrast extravasation after bilateral inferior petrosal sinus sampling masquerading as venous subarachnoid haemorrhage
Ho F L W, Cunanan E C, Wang S C, Mukherjee J J

Primary retroperitoneal transitional cell carcinoma presenting as a dumb-bell tumour
Basu S, Ansari M, Gupta S, Kumar A

Giant cell tumour of the proximal radius
Singh A P, Mahajan S, Singh A P

Princeps pollicis artery arising from the superficial palmar arch
Loukas M, Tubbs S, Louis Jr R G, Apaydin N


M E D I C A L    E D U C A T I O N

Clinics in diagnostic imaging (129)
See P P L, Peh W C G, Wong L Y, Chew K T L
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B O O K    R E V I E W

Essays in Medical Biography
Woo K T


L E T T E R S    T O    T H E    E D I T O R    A N D    A U T H O R'S   
R E P L Y

Comment on: Lifestyle, reproductive factors and risk of gallbladder cancer
Afifi M

Author’s Reply. Comment on: Lifestyle, reproductive factors and risk of gallbladder cancer
Mishra R N

Minimally-responsive head injury survivors may have chronic catatonia reversed years after an accident
Alisky J M


S M J    C M E    P R O G R A M M E