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Clinical Utility of Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Different...
Laboratory confirmation of cutaneous tuberculosis has remained difficult using conventional techniques which include the demonstration of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) on histopathologic examination and culture....
Intravenous Adrenaline or Vasopressin in Sudden Cardiac Arrest: A Literature Review
Of the approximately 15,000 deaths that occur in Singapore every year, about 25% are from cardiac causes; of which, some 30% to 40% occur...
Pilot Study to Assess the Viability of a Rape Trauma Syndrome Questionnaire
In their 1974 study, Burgess and Holmstrom1 interviewed a heterogeneous sample of 92 adult females admitted between 1972 and 1973 to the emergency ward...
A Preliminary Study of the Utility of Combined Cardiac Markers in the Evaluation of...
The management of patients presenting with chest pain of recent onset can prove to be a diagnostic challenge. These patients vary from having atypical...
CD4 Lymphocyte Enumeration in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Using Three-Colour and Four-Colour...
Clinical flow cytometry provides a precise technology for the multiparameter analysis of the morphological (scatter) and immunofluorescence properties of stained leukocyte populations, as well...
Deep Vein Thrombosis is Not Rare in Asia—The Singapore General Hospital Experience
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE), the postphlebitic syndrome and recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) are important and often preventable causes of early morbidity...
Aseptic Meningitis in Children—The Singapore Experience
Aseptic meningitis is a common diagnosis among infants admitted for fever without an obvious source. In cases where the aetiologic agent could be identified,...
A Retrospective Study on the Characteristics of Androgenetic Alopecia among Asian Races in the...
Androgenetic alopecia is hair thinning or balding due to the influence of androgens in males and females. Androgenetic alopecia is reported to affect 50%...
Cancer Incidence in Singapore, 1998 to 1999
The Singapore Cancer Registry has been monitoring the trends in cancer incidence since 1968. It publishes 5-yearly incidence figures for the periods 1968-1972, 1973-1977,...
Early Unplanned Readmission of Elderly in Singapore: A Retrospective Study
The number of elderly people in Singapore is expected to increase over the next 2 decades. The proportion of those 60 years and above...