Table of contents

Original articles

• The investigation of short stature: a survey of practice in Wales and suggested practical guidelines (27 January, 2004)

  C Evans, J W Gregory
• The effect of a symptom related “gating policy” on ANCA requests in routine clinical practice (27 January, 2004)

  D Sinclair, M Saas, J M Stevens
• A study of public opinion on the use of tissue samples from living subjects for clinical research (27 January, 2004)

  M L Goodson, B G Vernon
• The diagnostic value and cost effectiveness of routine fungal stains in a dermatopathology service of a district general hospital (27 January, 2004)

  J K Murphy, L O’Donohue
• Clinical evaluation of the COBAS Amplicor HBV monitor test for measuring serum HBV DNA and comparison with the Quantiplex branched DNA signal amplification assay in Taiwan (27 January, 2004)

  C-Y Dai, M-L Yu, S-C Chen, Z-Y Lin, M-Y Hsieh, L-Y Wang, J-F Tsai, W-L Chuang, W-Y Chang
• Computer based receptogram approach: an objective way of assessing immunohistochemistry of androgen receptor staining and its correlation with hormonal response in metastatic carcinoma of prostate (27 January, 2004)

  G Nabi, A Seth, A K Dinda, N P Gupta
• Non-neoplastic granulosa cells within ovarian vascular channels: a rare potential diagnostic pitfall (27 January, 2004)

  W G McCluggage, R H Young
• Hepatic myospherulosis complicating portal vein embolisation (27 January, 2004)

  P C W Lui, I S C Luk, C K L Lee, Y H Lui, C Y Leung, C H Choi
• Rapid, accurate genotyping of the common −α^4.2 thalassaemia deletion based on the use of denaturing HPLC

  (27 January, 2004)

  H Ou-Yang, L Hua, Q H Mo, X M Xu
• α⁰ Thalassaemia as a result of a novel 11.1 kb deletion eliminating both of the duplicated α globin genes

  (27 January, 2004)

  S-Q Jia, J Li, Q-H Mo, C Liao, L-Y Li, X-M Xu
• The immunohistochemical localisation of somatostatin receptors 1, 2, 3, and 5 in acoustic neuromas (27 January, 2004)

  N D Stafford, L T Condon, M J C Rogers, L Helboe, D A Crooks, S L Atkin
• The immunohistochemical expression of calcitonin receptor-like receptor (CRLR) in human gliomas (27 January, 2004)

  L Benes, C Kappus, G P McGregor, H Bertalanffy, H D Mennel, S Hagner
• A follow up model for patients with atrophic chronic gastritis and intestinal metaplasia (27 January, 2004)

  M Dinis-Ribeiro, C Lopes, A da Costa-Pereira, M Guilherme, J Barbosa, H Lomba-Viana, R Silva, L Moreira-Dias
• Lack of vascular adventitial fibroblastic cells in tumour stroma of intestinal-type and solid-type gastric carcinomas (27 January, 2004)

  H Nakayama, H Enzan, E Miyazaki, N Kuroda, M Toi, M Hiroi, W Yasui
• Demographic study of leukaemia presenting within the first 3 months of life in the Northern Health Region of England (27 January, 2004)

  R P S Bajwa, R Skinner, K P Windebank, M M Reid
• Gastrin releasing peptide and gastrin releasing peptide receptor expression in gastrointestinal carcinoid tumours (27 January, 2004)

  N Scott, E Millward, E J Cartwright, S R Preston, P L Coletta