Editorial
Saudi Medical Journal - 30 years
Saleh M. Al-Deeb and Fahdah Alokaily
Brief Reports
Anemic crisis due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae complication in sickle cell patients
Mubarak H. Zafer, AbdulMoneim S. Gamel, Mohamed A. Ansari, and Mohamed E. Hamid
Comparison of a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire with 24-hour dietary recalls to assess dietary intake of adult Kuwaitis
Mahshid Dehghan, Nawal Al-Hamad, Catherine R. McMillan, Prasanna Prakash, and Anwar T. Merchant
Case Reports
Incidental invasive thymoma during coronary artery bypass surgery
Moaath Al-Smady, Farouq F. Hammdan, Mahmood M. Abu-Abeeleh, and Islam M. Massad
Penile necrosis due to calciphylaxis in a patient of end stage renal disease
Tanvir Rizvi and Nizar A. Al-Nakshabandi
Primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenoma
Malak Abedalthagafi, Patrick G. Jackson, and Metin Ozdemirli
Restrictive dermopathy. Molecular diagnosis of restrictive dermopathy in a stillborn fetus from a consanguineous Iranian family
Ariana Kariminejad, Peyman Goodarzi, and Manfred S. Wehnert
Sympathetic chain Schwannoma
Faisal Al-Mashat
Research Articles
The effects of N-acetylcysteine on intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats
Suleyman Ayvaz, Burhan Aksu, Mustafa Inan, Hafize Uzun, Seval Aydin, Selcuk Bilgi, Hasan C. Umit, and Mehmet Pul
The protective effect of NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester and insulin on nitric oxide inhibition and pathology in experimental diabetic rat liver
Hilmi Ozden, Neslihan Tekin, Fahrettin Akyuz, Firdevs Gurer, Mehmet C. Ustuner, Fulya Kucuk, Gul Guven, and Faik Yaylak
Characterization and resistance mechanisms of cisplatin-resistant human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line
Jun-Xia Yang, Ying Luo, Hong-Mei Qiu, and Wei-Xue Tang
Penetrance of BRCA1/BRCA2 specific gene mutations in Iranian women with breast cancer
Amir H. Hashemian, Ebrahim Hajizadeh, Anoshirvan Kazemnejad, Morteza Atri, and Parvin Mehdipour
Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis
Erkan Ozturk, Murat Akin, Mehmet F. Can, Ismail Ozerhan, Bulent Kurt, Gokhan Yagci, and Turgut Tufan
Extremity vascular trauma. A 7-year experience in Lahore, Pakistan
Muhammad I. Hussain, Muhammad Zahid, Abdul-Waheed Khan, Hasan Askri, and AbulFazal A. Khan
Foramen of Vesalius
Aysin Kale, Funda Aksu, Adnan Ozturk, Ilke A. Gurses, Ozcan Gayretli, Fatma G. Zeybek, Bulent Bayraktar, Zafer Ari, and Neslihan Onder
Effect of human platelet-derived growth factor-BB on attachment of periodontal ligament cells on root surfaces
Sema Becerik, Sule Sonmez, Bilge H. Sen, Ismet Deliloglu-Gurhan, and Evren Evrenosoglu
Comparison of 3 doses of ropivacaine for epidural anesthesia in transurethral surgery
Gulen Guler, Recep Aksu, Kudret Dogru, Mustafa Sofikerim, Zeynep Tosun, and Adem Boyaci
Comparison of the effect of sevoflurane and halothane anesthesia on the fall in heart rate as a predictor of successful single shot caudal epidural in children
Arzu Mercan, Hatice Ture, Murat M. Sayin, Selami Sozubir, Ozge Koner, and Bora Aykac
Dexmedetomidine as a substitute for remifentanil in ambulatory gynecologic laparoscopic surgery
Nevriye Salman, Sennur Uzun, Fehmi Coskun, Mehmet A. Salman, Akgun E. Salman, and Ulku Aypar
Comparison of oral and vaginal misoprostol for cervical ripening before evacuation of first trimester missed miscarriage
Maysoon Jabir and Rania I. Smeet
Comparison study on the effect of prenatal administration of high dose and low dose folic acid
Sayyah M. Manizheh, Shojaiee Mandana, Argani Hassan, Gorbani H. Amir, Kazemi S. Mahlisha, and Ghojazadeh Morteza
Anti-inflammatory activity of silymarin in patients with knee osteoarthritis. A comparative study with piroxicam and meloxicam
Saad A. Hussain, Nizar A. Jassim, Intesar T. Numan, Ihab I. Al-Khalifa, and Talal A. Abdullah
Comparison of preoperative computerized tomography scan imaging of temporal bone with the intra-operative findings in patients undergoing mastoidectomy
Hooshang Gerami, Ebrahim Naghavi, Masroor Wahabi-moghadam, Kambiz Forghanparast, and Manzar H. Akbar
The relation between dual energy x-ray absorptiometry measurement of body fat composition and plasma ghrelin in patients with end-stage renal disease
Naglaa M. Elsayed, Soha T. Hamed, Mohamed M. El-Khatib, and Amal M. El-Shehaby
Distribution of ABO blood groups and rhesus factor in Southwest Saudi Arabia
Mohammed A. Sarhan, Kamel A. Saleh, and Saad M. Bin-Dajem
Prevalence of migraine and non-migraine headache among high school students at the National Guard Housing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Bader A. Al-Tulaihi and Mohammed A. Al-Jumah
Prescribing pattern of acid suppressive medications for medical inpatients in a teaching hospital in Qatar
Imran F. Khudair, Nagham D. Sadik, and Yolande I. Hanssens
Bibliometric analyses of biomedical research outputs in Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates 1988-2007
Nisrine Bissar-Tadmouri and Ghazi O. Tadmouri