Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
February 1999 Volume 44 Number 1
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Electronic Journal

REVIEW ARTICLE
The management of cancer in the elderly Fawzia Ashknana, Steven D. Heys and Oleg Eremin

MATTER FOR DEBATE
The drawbacks of overspecialisation I.J.P. Loefler

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

GENERAL SURGERY
Screening relatives of patients with colorectal cancer: the need for continuing education A.G. Heriot, V. Murday and D. Kumar

Supervised surgical trainees can perform pancreatic resections safely R.K. Praseedom, A. Paisley, K.K. Madhavan, O.J. Garden, D.C. Carter and S. Paterson-Brown

Prospective study of high dependency care requirements and provision Moira Turner, Harry J. McFarlane, Zygmunt H. Krukowski

ORTHOPAEDICS
The soft tissue management of children’s open tibial fractures K.J. Stewart, G. Tytherleigh-Strong, S. Bharathwaj and A.A. Quaba

SURGEONS-IN-TRAINING
Observer agreement analysis of MRI grading of knee osteoarthritis M.J. McNicholas, A.J. Brooksbank and C.M. Walk

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Surgery and the information age L.A. Lindsey

Assessment of an electronic mailing list for orthopaedic and trauma surgery George J. McLaugan, Mike Cadogan and Christopher W. Oliver

EDUCATION & TRAINING
“HOW I DO IT”
Anterior resection with total mesorectal excision R.J.C. Steele

EDUCATIONAL UPDATE
Limb shortening for the management of leg length discrepancy Cristiano Coppola and Nicola Maffulli

Optimal education techniques for basic surgical trainees: lessons from education theory P.J. Drew et al

CASE REPORTS
Cystic hygroma in an adult S.E. Morley, K.C.R.B. Ramesar and D.A.D. MacLeod

Acute small bowel obstruction due to ileal endometriosis: a case report and literature review D. Wickramasekera, D.J. Hay and M. Fayz

Synchronous and metachronous gastric adeno carcinoma: a case report and literature review K.K. Gnanalingham, C.N. Hall and P. Bishop

Delayed dislocation of radial head following upper radial epiphysial injury V.B. Srinivasan, D.N.W. Lake, S. Ghokale

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