Volume 29, Number 2

March 2000

An Open Invitation from the International Poverty and Health Network to All Health Professionals to Combat Poverty

Always and everywhere, the challenge for all health professionals is to understand, from a position of relative comfort, the nature and extent of the...

Cystoscopic Diagnosis of Bladder Cancer by Intravesical Instillation of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Induced Porphyrin Fluorescence—The Singapore Experience

Bladder cancer is the sixth most frequent malignant disease in the world. Superficial stages of the tumour are found in 75% to 85% of...

Philadelphia Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL): Clinico-Haematologic Characteristics, Molecular Analyses and 3-year Follow Up—A Single Institution Study

A number of specific chromosome abnormalities are associated with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). The commonest in adults with B lineage ALL is the Philadelphia...

Adverse Operative Risk Factors for Perforated Peptic Ulcer

Although there has been a significant decline in elective surgery for peptic ulcer disease with the introduction of H-2 blocker, the incidence of peptic...

Perioperative and Rehabilitative Outcomes after Amputation for Ischaemic Leg Gangrene

In the last century, Sir William Ferguson said: “amputation—one of the meanest and yet one of the greatest operations in surgery: mean, where resorted...