Single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy: from four wounds to one
December 2011 issue HKMJ is now online
Hong Kong Medical Journal December 2011 issue
is now available for download. Click on the "Current Issue"
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Re-emergence of late presentations of fetal haemoglobin Bart's disease in Hong Kong
Doctors from the
Princess Margaret Hospital and Kwong Wah Hospital recently reviewed a case series aiming at comparing early and late presentations of fetal Hb Bart's disease in the Kowloon West Cluster in Hong Kong, and finding reasons for the re-emergence of late presentations.
Development of the Chinese version of the Paediatric Allergic Disease Quality of Life Questionnaire: reliability and validity
Paediatric Allergic Disease Quality of Life Questionnaire is
a health-related assessment tool designed for children with allergic diseases. This study aimed to translate the original English version of the Questionnaire to Chinese and to provide psychometric evidence on the validity and reliability of the translated version.
An unusual cause of retention of urine after
intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy
for superficial bladder cancer
Prince of Wales Hospital recently reported an uncommon complication of intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) for superficial bladder cancer, namely a prostatic abscess, which gave rise
to retention of urine