EDITORIAL BOARD

CHIEF EDITOR Volume 19 Number 2 February 2009

Zafar Ullah Chaudhry

EDITORS EDITORIAL

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M. Najeeb-ur-Rab Ansari
Jamshed Akhtar Journal Clubs: An Important Teaching Tool
for Postgraduates
Shams Nadeem Alam and
Masood Jawaid
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Abdul Sattar Memon

ASSISTANT EDITORS ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Anaesthetic Risks in Children with 73

Shams Nadeem Alam
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome
Azmat Riaz, Hamid Saeed Malik,
Saba Sohail
Undergoing Adenotonsillectomy
Saeeda Baig Nadeem Fazal, Mohammad Saeed
and Saquib Naeem

Maternal Satisfaction after Spinal 77

MANAGING EDITOR

Anaesthesia for Caesarean Deliveries

Muhammad Zafaruddin Rashad Siddiqi and
Syed Asadullah Jafri

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BIBLIOGRAPHER
Nazir Ahmed Determinants of Decrease in Pulmonary
Hypertension Following Percutaneous
Ahmad Noor, Tahir Saghir and

Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy

Khan Shah-e- Zaman
STATISTICIAN
Sadaf Masood
Effects of Combined Interferon Alphaand 86
Ribavirin Therapy on Thyroid Functions
Amina Nadeem, Muhammad
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C
Aslam, Dilshad Ahmad Khan,
Abdul Ghaffar
Tassawar Hussain and
MEMBERS - NATIONAL Saadat Ali Khan

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Abdullah Jan Jaffer
Ata-ur-Rehman External Cephalic Version With Salbutamol
- Success Rate and Predictors of Success
Nasira Tasnim, Ghazala Mahmud
Amer Aziz and Mona Khurshid

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Khalid Masood Gondal
Mohammad Daud Khan Socio-demographic Characteristics and
the Three Delays of Maternal Mortality
Nusrat Shah, Nazli Hossain,
Muhammad Amjad Rizwana Shoaib,Ayesha Hussain,
Muhammad Asghar Butt Rehma Gillani and Nusrat H. Khan
Maj. Gen M. Aslam H.I. (M)
Morphological Profile and Association 99
Mehmood Ayyaz
of HER-2/Neu with Prognostic Markers
Nadeem Hafeez Butt Muhammad Ashraf Sharif,

in Breast Carcinoma in Northern Pakistan

Rashid Latif Khan Nadira Mamoon, Sajid Mushtaq
Rakhshanda Rehman and Muhammad Tahir Khadim

Rizwana Chaudhri
Yunus Khan
Zia-ur-Rehman
MEMBERS - INTERNATIONAL
A. A. Naqvi (UK)
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Hussein M. Al Freihi (Saudi Arabia)
Osman M. A. Taha (Sudan)
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S. Arulkumaran (UK)
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Pattern of Anterolateral Cervical Lymph
Nodes Involvement in Papillary Thyroid
Tahir Iqbal, Muhammad Zareen,
Carcinoma
Asif Iqbal, Farah Tahir, Samiullah
Khan and Zahoor Ahmed
Quality of Life Assessment in Patients with 108
Locally Advanced Head and Neck
Taokeer Ahmed Rizvi,
Malignancy after Ablative Surgery and
Mamoon Rashid, Bashir Ahmed,
Reconstruction with Microvascular
Ehtesham-ul-Haq, Saad-ur-Rahman
Free Flaps
Sarwar, Muhammad Zia-ul-Islam and
Muhammad Sarmad Tamimy

Type of Presentation of Dissociative Disorder Tabassum Alvi and 113

Shishir K. Regmi (UK)

and Frequency of Co-morbid Depressive

Disorder
Fareed Aslam Minhas

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Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Sajjad Hussain and Waqar Ahmed 117
Commissurotomy in Mitral Restenosis with
Situs Inversus
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monthly by the College of
Jejunal Diverticulitis 120
Physicians and Surgeons
Jonathan RL Wild, Mohammed H.
Pakistan
Shiwani and Q. Ullah

Torsion of a Wandering Spleen 123

Indexed in:
Muhammad Iqbal,
Presenting as a Case of Acute Abdomen
Index Medicus/ MEDLINE
and EMBASE / Excerpta Muhammad Adil Tareen
Medica and Uzma Sohail

Editorial correspondence Alpha-Methyldopa Hepatotoxicity Tauseef Ali, Nandakumar 125

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An Uncommon Cause of Sciatica Muhammad Shakeel, Manickam
Kumaravel, James M. MacKenzie
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XDR Tuberculosis: A Report from the New 133

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An Unusual Case of Urethral Catheter Nasir Ameer, Alex Hotouras,
Balloon Stuck in Vesical Diverticulum Siva Goru and Pallon Daruwala

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Muhammad Ameen Rauf,

Methicillin Resistance in
Staphy-lococcus