Book Review
HIV and psychiatry. A training and resource manual
Saleh M. Al-Deeb
Brief Reports
Failure to wean due to steroid psychosis
Fahmi Y. Khan
Paclitaxel in relapsed high risk anthracycline treated breast cancer patients
Manal Elhabbash and Abukris A. Alwindi
Effect of antioxidant serum levels of myocardial ischemia markers in patients with ischemic heart disease after treadmill exercise testing
Nabil M. Hasso, Hassan A. Al-Rubayi, and Hedef D. El-Yassin
Proliferating cell nuclear antigen index and nm23 expression in osteosarcoma in relation to disease- free survival and tumor grade
Vuslat S. Unal, Ayse Ayhan, and Mazhar A. Tokgozoglu
Medicolegal deaths in children and adolescents
Yasar Tirasci, Suleyman Goren, Fuat Gurkan, and Ibrahim Uzun
Evaluation of antisperm antibodies in infertile men associated with varicocele. Pre and post varicocelectomy
Abdolrasool Mehrsai, Mojtaba R. Valojerdi, Homan Djaladat, and Gholamreza Poormand
The therapeutic value of elective laparoscopic appendectomy in the management of chronic abdominal pain
Seyed V. Hosseini, Marzieh Haghbeen, Hooman Yarmohammadi, Kamran B. Lankarani, Mohammad J. Kaviani, and Hamid R. Sharifzad
Evaluation of wood s light and direct smear for diagnosis of pityriasis versicolor and erythrasma
Masood Maleki and AbdolMajid Fata
Students perceptions of their undergraduate medical education
Serpil Aydin, Fusun Yaris, Melih E. Sahin, Cahit Ozer, and Esber Ozkomur
Case Reports
Ingested chicken bone leading to aorto-esophageal fistula
Nawaf J. Shatnawi and Kamal E. Bani-Hani
Resolution of a large left ventricular thrombus with anticoagulation alone
Syed-Mehdi H. Zaidi, Tarig S. Al-Khuwaitir, Bashir A. Wani, and Ezza Alafifi
Foreign body in the vallecula presenting as acute epiglottitis with unilateral supraglottitis
Latifi Asrar, Nureni Oyetunji, Sayed S. Raza, and Imranulhaque Zeyaulhaque
Primary amenorrhea. Varied etiology
Sangeeta M. Bhat and Ilham M. Hamdi
Ovarian arteries with bilateral unusual courses
Osman Sulak, Soner Albay, Suleyman M. Tagil, and Mehmet A. Malas
Pulmonary hyalinizing granuloma. Bilateral pulmonary nodules associated with chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
Mohamed B. Satti, Abdelnasir A. Batouk, Muntasir M. Abdelaziz, Mohamed F. Ahmad, and Mohamed A. Abdelaal
Adhesive intestinal obstruction following blunt abdominal trauma
Ashraf F. Hefny, Karl Lunsjo, Sandhya Joshi, and Fikri M. Abu-Zidan
Letter to the Editor
Other
Contributions of Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) to the progress of surgery: A study and translations from his book Al-Taisir
Rabie E. Abdel-Halim
Autosomal dominant Weill-Marchesani syndrome and glaucoma management
Murat S. Saricaoglu, Ahmet Sengun, Ahmet Karakurt, and Zeliha Colluoglu
Research Articles
Comparison of bone mineral density with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, quantitative ultrasound and single energy x-ray absorptiometry
Mahmoud I. El-Desouki, Mohammad S. Sherafzal, and Saleh A. Othman
Determination of osteoporosis risk factors using a multiple logistic regression model in postmenopausal Turkish women
Zeki Akkus, Handan Camdeviren, Fatma Celik, Ali Gur, and Kemal Nas
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in Saudi adult soldiers
Dhafer A. Al-Qahtani and Mohammed L. Imtiaz
Hypothermia in Iranian newborns. Incidence, risk factors and related complications
Farid Zayeri, Anoshirvan Kazemnejad, Mojtaba Ganjali, Gholamreza Babaei, Navid Khanafshar, and Fatemeh Nayeri
Anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in hemodialysis patients receiving long-term hemodialysis therapy in Turkey
Sabahattin Ocak, Nizami Duran, Ali F. Eskiocak, and Hasip Aytac
Serodiagnosis of toxoplasmosis in Bahrain
Khaled S. Tabbara and Fadhel Saleh
The effect of electromagnetic waves on the growth of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar
Umit Aksoy, Serap Sahin, Soykan Ozkoc, and Gul Ergor
Evaluation of efficacy, survival rate and complications of peritoneal catheter placement of patients with end-stage renal disease
Khosro Ayazi, Shahnaz Atabak, Reza Saghebi, Shahin Ayazi, and Samira Aryasepehr
Evolution of living donor liver transplantation in Egypt
Hatem Khalaf, Mahmoud El-Meteini, Talaat El-Sefi, Alaa F. Hamza, Galal El-Gazaz, Saleh M. Saleh, Ibrahim Moustafa, Hesham Gad, Ayman Yosry, Ehab El-Hussainy, Medhat Khafaga, and Amr Helmy
Recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-7 and bone marrow as a substitute for bone graft in reconstruction defect of rabbit mandible
Amer Smajilagic, Moustafa Y. Al-Khalil, Amira Redjic, Selma Filipovic, Besima Hadjihasanovic, and Sami Lappalainen
Important anatomical landmarks in the lateral nasal wall
Baris O. Donmez, Bulent V. Agirdir, and Muzaffer M. Sindel
Arcuate foramen and its clinical significance
Ozgur Cakmak, Esra Gurdal, Gazanfer Ekinci, Erdem Yildiz, and Safiye Cavdar
Association between lamellar body count and respiratory distress in neonates
Shohreh Bahasadri and Nasrin Changizi
Pregnancy outcome of parturients below 16 years of age
Bahia Namavar Jahromi and Armaghan Daneshvar
Factors associated with complications in gynecological surgeries
Mohammed H. Addar and Johara A. Al-Motawa
Effects of sevoflurane and desflurane in CA1 after incomplete cerebral ischemia in rats
Ali F. Erdem, Mehmet Cesur, Haci A. Alici, Fazli Erdogan, Nazim Dogan, Husnu Kursad, and Mustafa S. Yuksek
The efficacy of Schroth s 3-dimensional exercise therapy in the treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in Turkey
Saadet Otman, Nezire Kose, and Yavuz Yakut
Drug prescribing indicators in primary health care centers in Bahrain
Tawfeeq A. Naseeb and Mohammed A. Nasser
Housewife onycholysis
Inas K. Sharquie, Mohammed Al-Faham, Jasim M. Karhoot, Khalifa E. Sharquie, Makram M. Al-Waiz, and Wisam S. Al-Douri
Review
Serological diagnosis of celiac disease
Khalil A. Aziz and Rex J. Polson