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Medical Journal

Established 1887
Volume 43, No.2, June, 1998


 


CONTENTS

Leading article  61 
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Tobacco industry's excuses for mass murder. Sajeeva Ranaweera 
Vitamins and coronoary heart disease: where do we stand? 
Shanthi Mendis
Papers 74 

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Erectile and ejaculatory failure after transurethral prostatectomy. Neville D Perera, J T Hill 
Microfilarial periodicity of Wuchereria bancrofti and man landing periodicity of the vector Culex quinquefasciatus Say n Matara, Sri Lanka. Mirani V Weerasooriya, Malka P S Mudalige, N K Gunawardena, E Kimura, W A Samarawickrema 
Iodine content of commercially available iodised salt in the Sri Lankan market. J P Kumarasiri, B M R Fernandopulle, M A L K N Lankathillake
The prevalence of gestational diabetes in a Sri Lankan antenatal clinic. S H Siribaddana, R Deshabandu, D Rajapakse, K Silva, D J S Fernando
The value of percutaneous nephrosotomy; Sri Lankan experience. Usha C Samarasinghe, Neville D Perera
 
From the journals 96  R L Jayakody
WHO press release 98 Passive smoking does cause lung cancer, do not let them fool you
Brief communications 99
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Familial adenomatous polyposis. Deepthi C De Silva, Ranil Fernando
The current nomenclature of chronic hepatitis. Malee S Fernando, Devaka J S Fernando
Case reports 109
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Spontaneous hepatic rupture in pregnancy. P S Wijesinghe, P C Gunasekera, J Sirisena
A case of multifocal motor neuropathy. R Gamage, W R S M Seneviratne
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Teaching and learning about diabetes mellitus: a clarification 
A A T P Chang, D J S Fernando, K de Abrew, M H R Sheriff
Fine needle aspiration cytology of leiomyosarcoma of the inferior vena cava.
M S Fernando, S R Constantine, M P Kumarasinghe
Immunophenotyping in leukaemias. A P Krukulasuriya, B Wijesiriwardene, T K Perera
Audit of medical record keeping and clinical management of poisoning at a teaching hospital. D De Silva, C S V Pathirana, A P Ratnayake, W V G R Ranasinghe 
The first isolation of Helicobacter pylori from gastric biopsy speciments in Sri Lanka. P Chandrasiri, R S B Wickremasinghe, Dayasiri Fernando, R Jayasena 
A young man with widespread arterial occlusions and stroke. Udaya Ranawaka, Suranjith Seneviratne, Sudath Gunasekera, R Sutharson, Jagath Wijesekera 
Wakeful but unaware for years. Suranjith Seneviratne, Udaya Ranawaka, Sudath Gunasekera, Bimsara Senanayake, Arjuna Fernando, Jagath Wijesekera
Mirizzi syndrome. G N Lucas, S Sriranganathan
Hydrocephalus with choroid plexus tumour. G N Lucas, M A L Faiz


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