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Metastasis to the Sinonasal Tract from Sigmoid Colon Adenocarcinoma
A 52-year-old female was diagnosed with well-differentiated adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid colon in 1999. An anterior resection was performed followed by adjuvant chemotherapy for...
Intracranial Aspergilloma in Immunocompetent Patients Successfully Treated with Radical Surgical Intervention and Antifungal Therapy...
Aspergillosis of the central nervous system (CNS) is an uncommon infection, mainly occurring in immunocompromised patients. It may present in several forms: meningitis, mycotic...
Ultrasound Assisted Thrombolysis in Acute Ischaemic Stroke: Preliminary Experience in Singapore
Most patients with acute ischaemic stroke have arterial thrombi that occlude extra- or intracranial vessels. Intravenously administered tissue plasminogen activator (IV-TPA) induces thrombolysis and...
Teaching Biochemistry to Medical Students in Singapore – From Organic Chemistry to Problem-based Learning
The medical faculty in the National University of Singapore was started in 1905 and a Chair in Biochemistry established in 1927. Biochemistry was taught...
The Teaching of Anatomy: The First Hundred Years (1905-2005)
When the Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School opened its doors on 3 July 1905 in what was to be the historical...
The History of the College of Medicine and Tan Teck Guan Buildings
For 60 years from 1926, the College of Medicine Building (COMB) was the centre of medical education in Singapore. The history of medical services...
The 1926 General Hospital, Singapore
As in previous articles on the medical history of Singapore, this one has many quotations from primary sources. The author believes that this makes...
A Doctor’s Duty is to Heal the Unhealthy: The Story of Tun Dr Mahathir...
Mahathir Mohamad was born in 1925 in Alor Setar, Kedah. In 1947, after living through the turbulent times of the Second World War, he...
The Singapore Years and Subsequently
As a small-town upcountry Malay boy, Singapore was to me a great big city when I first arrived in 1947 to join the King...
Benjamin Henry Sheares, MD, MS, FRCOG: President, Republic of Singapore 1971-1981; Obstetrician and Gynaecologist...
When Dr Benjamin Sheares, President of the Republic of Singapore,3 died on 12th May 1981 and his body laid in state at the Istana,...