TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 4, Number 1, MARCH 1998
 
Original Articles
The combination of omeprazole, amoxycillin, and clarithromycin eradicates Helicobacter pylori in 95% of patients - 7 days of therapy is as good as 10 days
CK Ching, YK Chan, WC Ng 

 
The need for a clinical trials research methodology training programme in Hong Kong
WF Lui, J Karlberg 

 
Patients' knowledge of and attitudes to anaesthesia and anaesthetists in Hong Kong
MG Irwin, SKY Fung, S Tivey 

 
Effectiveness of calcium acetate as a phosphate binder in patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
BY Choy, WK Lo, IKP Cheng 

 
Lack of structural rearrangement in c-kit and stem cell factor genes in Hong Kong Chinese patients with myelodysplastic syndromes or acute myeloid leukaemia
CH Chui, PHM Leung, FY Lau, TSK Wan, LC Chan, G Cheng 

 
Review Articles
Scleredema in Chinese patients: a local retrospective study and general review
CS Leung, LY Chong 

 
Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for stenosis of arteriovenous fistulae: a review of local experience
S Tang, CY Lo, WK Tso, WK Lo, FK Li, TM Chan 

 
Modern management of intrauterine growth retardation
KY Leung, JYS Liu 

 
Medical Practice
Emergency defibrillation performed by coronary nursing staff: a pilot report
WK Chan, NNS Kung, MC Ma, WP Ng, S Chan, FL Lau 

 
Case Reports
Streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome in a post-myomectomy patient
SM Choo, SW Yeo, E Thomas 

 
Penicillium marneffei infection and solitary pulmonary nodule
KC Chang, CK Chan, KC Chow, CW Lam 

 
A case of colonic tuberculosis mimicking Crohn's disease
CF Lau, AMC Wong, KS Yee, CK Loo, PK Hui, KM Lam 

 
Clinicopathological conference
A 24-year-old man with cerebral infarction
HK Ng, R Kay, KY Lau, FWS Ko, JCK Lee

 
Medical History
The historical development of dentistry in Hong Kong
GKC Chiu, WIR Davies 

 
The healing hand in literature: Shakespeare and surgery
KTL Fu 

 
Pictorial Medicine
Acquired inhibitor to factor VIII causing upper-airway obstruction
GM Joynt 

 
Book Reviews
Paediatric handbook, fifth edition
LCK Low

 
A clinical atlas of Chinese infants
TF Fok

 
Info-Med orthopaedics, volumes 1 and 2
FK Ip

 
Sir David Todd Oration 1997
Molecular medicine--from diagnosis to gene therapy
YW Kan