Contents

Journal of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

October 1999 Volume 44 Number 5

"...and ever you with smiling and familiar eyes"

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ANNOUNCEMENT
Information Technology at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: heading for the Millennium W. Angus

REVIEW ARTICLES
Nutrients and the surgical patient: current and potential therapeutic applications to clinical practice Steven D. Heys and Earl Gardner

The role of the intensive care unit in the management of the critically ill surgical patient Brian H. Cuthbertson and Nigel R. Webster

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Laparoscopic or Lichtenstein repair for recurrent inguinal hernia : one unit’s experience Sudhir Kumar, S.J. Nixon, and I.M.C MacIntyre

Radiological staging for squamous carcinoma of the head and neck: a standardised practice? E.L.K. Nilssen, L. McClymont and S.Denholm

First year of a fast track carotid duplex service T. S. Bhatti, K. Harradine, B. Davies, B.P. Heather and J.J. Earnshaw

SURGICAL TECHNIQUE
Lateral preputioplasty for phimosis T.M. Lane and L.M. South

AUDIT
Diagnostic delay in colorectal cancer Mark A. Potter and R. Graeme Wilson

EDUCATION & TRAINING

EDUCATIONAL UPDATE
Ocular injuries Caroline J. MacEwen

Senior House Officer training: some myths exposed P.A.Hurley and S.Paterson-Brown

ABSTRACTS
Surgical abstracts presented at the Joint Meeting of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, with the College of Medicine of South Africa

CASE REPORTS
Metastatic melanoma of the small bowel as a cause of occult intestinal bleeding L.S. Wong, I. Boughli, S. Odogwu and P.N. Roberts

Splenic actinomycosis P.M.Y. Chan, S.M. Chong, B.K. Ng and S.T.F. Chan

Front cover photograph kindly supplied by Dr Caroline MacEwen. See page 317 “Ocular injuries” (Quotation from Rupert Brooke: “Sometimes even now...”, 1912. )

The Journal is covered by Biological Abstracts, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health, Current Contents, EMBASE, Index Medicus and Nuclear Science Abstracts.

Published by The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Production Editor: S Maskery, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DW, Scotland, UK. Electronic authoring by J Lindsey. Copyright The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1999 all rights reserved.