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Lessons Learnt from Two Women with Morbidly Adherent Placentas and a Review of Literature
Pathologically adherent placenta occurs when there is a defect of the decidua basalis, resulting in abnormally invasive implantation of the placenta into the substance...
Pars Plana Vitrectomy and Internal Limiting Membrane Peeling for Macular Oedema Secondary to Retinal...
Macular oedema is a major cause of visual impairment in a number of ocular conditions such as diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, Irvine-Gass syndrome...
Impact of Various Continuing Medical Education Activities on Clinical Practice – A Survey of...
Continuing medical education (CME) plays an indispensable role in the clinical practice of any doctor. The practice of evidence-based medicine today,1 or any meaningful...
Certification, Waiting for Amputations
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Grey Scrubs: Medical Dramas
As with every Chinese New Year, reunion dinners await and it always seems that relatives will corner you with the most inane questions, until...
Take a Bao if You Are Not Superstitious
Superstition, defined by Webster’s dictionary as “a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a...
Is There a Place for Placebo in Management of Psychogenic Movement Disorders?
The term “placebo” is derived from St Jerome’s Latin Psalm, placebo domino in regione vivorum (I shall please the Lord in the land of...
A New Method for the Removal of Safety Pins Ingested by Children
Foreign body ingestion is a relatively common problem, with an estimated incidence of 120 per 1 million population, resulting in approximately 1500 deaths each...
Paradoxical Orthodeoxia in a Patient with a Large Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
We report an unusual case of “paradoxical orthodeoxia” in a man with a large asymptomatic thoracic aneurysm of the ascending aorta, arch and proximal...
Case Reports of Transient Loss of Vision and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
In 1999, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) research committee defined 19 specific neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) syndromes to achieve a consensus in...