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Table of Contents of the December 2003 Issue

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EDITORIAL
How Should the Government Deal with the Rise in Health Care Costs?
Mohammad Zubaid
 
REVIEW ARTICLE
Impact of Molecular Biology on Cancer Treatment: I Therapeutic Targets
Christopher HJ Ford
 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Radiography in Acute Lower Extremities Blunt Trauma: Proposed Guidelines for General
Practitioners

Homoud F Al-Zuabi, Sultan F Al-Mutairi, Hussain Q Al-Mutairi

Utility of Ambulatory Cardiac Loop Event Electrocardiographic Recorders for the Diagnosis of
Palpitations

Aly M Hegazy, Bader AAbdel Kader

Ultrasonography in the Diagnosis of Clinically Equivocal Acute Appendicitis: A Prospective Study
Maged Ibrahim, Mahmoud Sakr, Thottungal R Kreshnan, Raju Sharma, Atef Abdel-Shaheed, Mahmoud A Habib

Effect of Short-Term Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation on Anemia and Symptoms in
Adolescent Kuwaiti Girls

Robert T Jackson, Zamzam Al-Mousa, Montaha Al-Raqua, Prasanna Prakash

Assessment of the Asymmetric Eccentric Flap for the Management of Chronic Pilonidal Sinus
Mahmoud A Habib, Mahmoud Sakr, Atef A Abdel-Shaheed, Khaled M Abdel-Majeed, Maged R Ibrahim, Thomas Thurairatnam
 
CASE REPORTS
Metastatic Papillary Carcinoma in Thyroglossal Duct Remanant from Thyroid Gland: A Case Report
Mohammad G Al-Ajmi, Mohammad Azfar, Shahzad Avais

Ormond’s Disease (Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis): Case report
Mohammad A Mohammad Ibn-Ouf, Mohammad Osman M Sulaiman, Osman Abdul Wahab

Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria Presenting with Renal Vein Th rombosis and Pulmonary embolism
Al-enezi Saleh, Cherian Samuel, Al-dosary Ahmed

Trichobezoar with Gastric Ulcer Perforation-A Case Report
Majid Ali Gamal Hassan, Vinod K Grover, Humad Sameer

Acute Abdomen and Taenia Solium Peritonii
Osama Turky Abu-Salem, Montaha A.Hassan
 
SHORT COMMUNICATION
Giardiasis in Kuwait
Eiman M Al-Nakkas, Hussein M Shweiki, Manal S Al-Mutar, Shukry M Rihan, Doa Hussein
 
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
How Really Selective, Renoprotective and Risk-Free is "Low Dose Dopamine", for the Routine Clinical Use among Oliguric Critically Ill Patients?
Anil Kumar Saxena
SELECTED ABSTRACTS OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE BY AUTHORS IN KUWAIT
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TITLE INDEX – KUWAIT MEDICAL JOURNAL (KMJ) 2003, VOLUME NO. 35
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