Volume 78 Number 2, May 2009

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Table of Contents

Editorial 79 Treatment of bacterial infections
PJ Morrison
Commentaries 80 My hero
ACG Uprichard
82 Helping to Provide High Quality Care in Primary Care
M Rawlins, V Moore
Annual Oration 84 What is Beauty?
JR Corbett
Papers 90 Prevalence of palmaris longus absence - a study in the Yoruba population
GO Mbaka, AB Ejiwunmi
94 Cocaine: Recent trends in Northern Ireland
JR Lyness
99 The incidence and rate of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment seven years after cataract surgery in patients with high myopia
MA Williams, S McGimpsey, S Abugreen, W Chan, JA Sharkey, RM Best, PB Johnston
105 Non-epithelial malignancies and metastatic tumours of the breast
ME O'Donnell, M McCavert, J Carson, FJ Mullan, MW Whiteside, WI Garstin
113 Telemedicine and Trauma Referrals - a Plastic Surgery Pilot Project
AJ Diver, H Lewis, DJ Gordon
115 Immediate and long-term outcomes of Lichtenstein and Kugel patch operations for inguinal hernia repair
B Dasari, L Grant, T Irwin
Medical History 119 Lobar pneumonia treated by Musgrave Park physicians
J Hedley-Whyte, DR Milamed
Case Reports 129 Inferior Vena Cava Thrombosis in Young Adults - a review of two cases
BJ McAree, ME O'Donnell, C Boyd, RAJ Spence, B Lee, CV Soong
134 Kikuchi-Fugimoto Disease (Cervical Subacute Necrotising Lymphadenitis): An important benign disease often masquerading as lymphoma
WJ Primrose, SS Napier, AJ Primrose
137 Epstein - Barr virus Pneumonitis
TE McManus, PV Coyle, J Lawson, JS Elborn, JC Kidney
Letters 139 To the Editor
Antimicrobial resistance in Campylobacter isolates from sporadic cases of acute human gastroenteritis in Northern Ireland.  JE Moore, BC Millar, MAS McMahon, DA McDowell, PJ Rooney
Reviews 140 Books
Integrative Medicine for children.  M Loo