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Journal of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

June 2000 Volume 45 Number 3

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REVIEW ARTICLE
Bacterial endocarditis and orthodontics G.J. Roberts and J. Omar

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Correlating clinical appearance of nasopharyngeal carcinoma with tumour staging W.K. Low and J. Leong

The effects of splenic artery ligation in an experimental model of secondary hypersplenism M. Sahin, S. Tekin, F. Aksoy, H. Vatansev, M. Seker, M.C. Avunduk and A. Kartal

Anorectal malformations in female children - 10 years experience M.A. Hashmi and S. Hashmi

Thorascopy versus open lung biopsy in the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease: a randomised controlled trial A.K. Ayed and R. Raghunathan

Centralisation of oesophageal cancer services; the view from the periphery A.A. Milne, J. Skinner and G. Browning

Glyceryl trinitrate treatment of chronic fissure in ano: one year’s experience with 0.5% GTN paste F.F. Palazzo, S. Kapur, M. Steward and P.T. Cullen

EDUCATION & TRAINING

HOW DO I DO IT
Abdominal aortic aneurysms E. Macaulay and J. Engeset

EDUCATIONAL REVIEW
Sepsis and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome R.L. Paterson and N. R Webster

AUDIT
Deaths following hernia surgery: room for improvement E. McGugan, H. Burton, A.J. Nixon, A.M. Thompson

SURGICAL TECHNIQUE
A modification to aid open tracheostomy A.C. Weight and M.L. Nicholson

CASE REPORTS
A case of multiple splenic abscesses managed nonoperatively A.W. Murray and A.B. MacGregor

Extracranial neurilemmoma: a case report and review of the literature A. Ahmed, A. Morley and J.A. Wilson

A case of a Spigelian hernia at an unusually high anatomical location J.M. Rehman, C.S. Seow and P.J. O’Dwyer

Mediastinal endodermal sinus tumour: surgical role in chemotherapy resistant cases A.A. Syed and V.P. Lynch

Front cover photograph kindly supplied by E. Macaulay and J. Engeset. See page 176, “Abdominal aortic aneurysms” (Quotation Jonathan Swift)

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