TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 8, Number 6, DECEMBER 2002
 
Editorial
Deep vein thrombosis
TK Chan
 
Original Articles
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy versus open cholecystectomy in elderly patients with acute holecystitis: retrospective study
CH Chau, CN Tang, WT Siu, JPY Ha, MKW Li

 
Venous thromboembolism in the Chinese population—experience in a regional hospital in Hong Kong
HSY Liu, BCS Kho, JCW Chan, FMF Cheung, KY Lau, FPT Choi, WC Wu, TK Yau

 
Endoscopic transnasal orbital decompression for thyrotoxic orbitopathy
APW Yuen, KYW Kwan, E Chan, AWC Kung, KSL Lam

 
Laparoscopic incisional hernioplasty utilising on-lay expanded polytetrafluoroethylene DualMesh: prospective study
H Lau, NG Patil, WK Yuen, F Lee

 
Metabolic control of diabetes in a diabetes centre
WMS Lam, JKY Li, AYS Leung, WK Kwan

 
Use of the low-dose corticotropin stimulation test for the diagnosis of secondary adrenocortical insufficiency
CH Choi, SC Tiu, CC Shek, KL Choi, FKW Chan, PS Kong

 
Medical Practice
Current perspectives on emergency contraception
SST Lo

 
Hospital preparedness for chemical and biological incidents in Hong Kong
JTS Chan, RSD Yeung, SYH Tang

 
Prone table stereotactic breast biopsy
JYH Hui, LK Chan, RLM Chan, AWL Lau, J Lo, JCS Chan, HS Lam

 
Case Reports
Phaeochromocytoma in children
LPK Yeung, EYW Kwan, PT Cheung, LCK Low

 
A returned traveller with persistent fever due to murine typhus
CP Ng, CB Lo, KK Wong, CH Chung

 
Hip pain and childhood malignancy
M Wong, CH Chung, WK Ngai

 
Pictorial Medicine
Vallecular cyst in a neonate
PY Chow, DKK Ng, G Poon, Y Hui

 
Doctors and Society
Two decades of palliative care
KS Chan

 
Book Reviews
Fetal and pediatric ultrasound—a casebook approach
PL Khong

 
The ageing body: conservative management of common neuromusculoskeletal conditions
RJ Scudds 

 
Ward ethics: dilemmas for medical students and doctors in training
P Tong