This Issue in the Journal

A summary of the original articles featured in this issue of the NZMJ

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Editorial

Changes in the pathology reporting of rectal cancer: is it time to adopt synoptic reporting?

Chris Hemmings, Mark Jeffery, Frank Frizelle

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Original Articles

Pathology reporting of rectal cancer: a national audit

John Keating, Simi Lolohea, Diane Kenwright

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Liver injury in children: causes, patterns and outcomes

Christopher Wakeman, Spencer Beasley, Scott Pearson, Frank Frizelle, Andrew Gooding, Jeremy Sharr, Bruce Dobbs

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The Auckland experience with laparoscopic donor nephrectomy

Carl Muthu, John McCall, John Windsor, Richard Harman, Ian Dittmer, Pat Smith, Stephen Munn

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Do nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs affect the outcome of patients admitted to hospital with lower gastrointestinal bleeding?

David Yong, Philip Grieve, John Keating

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Viewpoint

How much has the introduction of laparoscopic surgery changed open surgery?

Garth Poole, Shen Ooi, Stephen Scott, Frank Frizelle

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Case Notes

Duodenal somatostatinoma: a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding

Christopher Wakeman, Philip Bagshaw, Justine Gearry, John Jarvis, Jane Evans, Steven Ding

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Non-surgical approach to delayed expansion of traumatic intramural duodenal haematoma

Tanju Acar, Fahrettin Yildiz, Serdar Esgil, Basak Hosgore, Raci Aydin

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Doctors in competition

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the Inaugural National Conference on Diseases of the Breast, Thursday 24 and Friday 25 July 2003

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Medical Image

Disabling acrocyanosis

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Lignocaine neurotoxicity

Basil Hutchinson

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Detection of Down’s syndrome - and Response

Ashley Bloomfield, Pat Tuohy, Rosemary Reid

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Problems with cold and damp housing among Pacific families are not due to ignorance - and Response

Gay Keating, Sarnia Butler, Maynard Williams, Colin Tukuitonga, Janis Paterson

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6-thioguanine nucleotides and thiopurine methyltransferase activity: important factors determining response to treatment and incidence of adverse effects from azathioprine and 6-MP

Richard Gearry, Murray Barclay, Sharon Gardiner, Mei Zhang, James Harraway, Peter George, Rebecca Roberts, Martin Kennedy, Linda Pike

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Obituary

Dorothy Marian Stewart

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Book Reviews

ABC of psychological medicine, Richard Mayou, Michael Sharpe and Alan Carson (eds)

Roger Mulder

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Hospital in the home: principles and practice, Michael Montalto

Simon Wynn-Thomas

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