case of tumoral calcinosis. November 1985;II(2):67-70.

Specialist; Junior Specialist; Head Orthopaedics,

Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Khoula

Hospital.

 

Reports a rare case of tumoral calcinosis admitted to the

Department of Orthopaedics at Khoula Hospital in

September 1985. Tumoral calcinosis is a rare condition

occuring in children as localised circumscribed areas of

amorphous calcification, around joints.

CALCINOSIS.

 

 

November 1991;VIII(2):53-54. Senior Consultant; Junior

Specialist, Royal Hospital.

CARBUNCLE.

 

 

lympho epithelioma. August 1986;III(1):44-46. Medical

Officer, Department of Cardiology, Al-Nahdha Hospital.

 

Kaposi's sarcoma is an unusual neoplasm, primarily

involving the skin and especially over the lower

extremeties. It is prevalent in Africa south of the

Sahara, and is a common occurrence in young homosexual

males. In this article, a case of Kaposi's sarcoma

occurring as a secondary malignancy in a patient

receiving treatment for lymphoepithelioma is reported.

SARCOMA, KAPOSI'S/CARCINOMA.

 

May 1993;IX(4):17-19. Specialist Surgery; Medical

Officer, Nizwa Central Hospital.

COLOSTOMY/NEOPLASM METASTASIS/CARCINOMA.

 

 

of the breast with secondaries in the brain and lungs.

November 1990;VII(2):17-18. Senior Medical officer,

Department of Neurosurgery, Khoula Hospital.

CARCINOMA, DUCTAL.

 

 

Carcinoma. February 1991;VII(3):18-19. Department of

Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sultan Qaboos Hospital, Salalah.

CARCINOMA, MERKLE CELL.

 

 

cardiomegaly induced by idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

and ischaemic cardiomyopathy. May 1996;XII(4):28-40.

Consultant Physician, Medical Department, Sohar Hospital.

 

The clinical, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic

findings including pulse Doppler-derived left ventricular

filling parameters were utilised in the differential

diagnosis of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM)-

induced heart failure and/or cardiomegaly from that

produced by ischaemic cardiomyopathy in 152 consecutive

patients admiited to a district hospital.

MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA/CARDIOPATHY, CONGESTIVE.

 

 

resuscitation : background, physiology, guidelines and

beyond. February 1995;XI(3):18-22. Registrar

Cardiology; Chief of Medicine & Head of Cardiology, Royal

Hospital.

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.

 

resuscitation : recent advances. May 1994;X(4):52-53.

Department of Cardiology, Royal Hospital.

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.

 

 

abdominal pregnancy. May 1996;XII(4):53-54. Specialist;

Senior Consultant, Department of Obstetrics &

Gynaecology, Royal Hospital.

CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY/DOUGLAS' POUCH/PREGNANCY.

 

 

future problem from Oman? May 1994;X(4):6-9. Assistant

Professor; Visiting Consultant, College of Medicine,

Sultan Qaboos University.

 

Studies of village populations by medical students in

Oman have indicated moderately high prevalence rates of

hypertension and obesity. Transferring the responsibility

for identification and management of risk factors for

cardiovascular disease prevention from specialist to

primary health care is suggested in an attempt to prevent

this potential epidemic.

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES/HYPERTENSION/OBESITY.

 

 

catheterised patient. February 1987;III(3):38-39.

Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Northwick Park

Hospital.

 

Abstract of lectures from the symposium on Infection

Control held in December 1986 under the auspices of the

Ministry of Health.

INFECTION CONTROL/CATHETERIZATION.

 

 

and intractable lumbago. November 1989;VI(2):39-42.

Junior Specialist, Khoula Hospital.

NEURILEMMOMA/CAUDA EQUINA/LOW BACK PAIN.

 

 

Granulomatous angitis of the central nervous system. May

1990;VI(4):31-37. Junior Specialist Neurosurgeon;

Consultant Neurosurgeon; Senior Specialist Neurosurgeon,

Khoula Hospital.

GRANULOMA/VASCULITIS/CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.

 

 

otorrhea resulting from traumatic tympanic membrane

perforation. August 1991;VIII(1):38-39. Department of

Child Health, Royal Hospital.

CEREBROSPINAL OTORRHEA/TYMPANIC MEMBRANE.

 

 

appraisal. November 1987;IV(2):12-16. Specialist;

Medical Officer, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology,

Sohar Hospital.

 

Cervical incompetence during pregnancy was surgically

treated by McDonald's purse string suture in 34 patients

at Sohar Hospital. Eight cases were continuing with

pregnancy, the outcome in the remaining 26 cases is

presented with a foetal survival rate of 80%.

CERVIX INCOMPETENCE.

 

 

particular reference to pregnancy. November 1988;V(2):

27-28. Senior Medical Officer, Batinah Region.

 

Review of cases who acquired infection during pregnancy

to find out the effect of pregnancy on the outcome of

these patients.

CHICKENPOX/EPIDEMIOLOGY/PREGNANCY.

 

 

III(4):5-9. Senior Specialist Paediatrics, Al-Nahdha

Hospital.

 

A clinical case and the battered baby syndrome or "child

abuse" is briefly reviewed.

BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME/CHILD ABUSE.

 

 

Centre. August 1989;VI(1):23-28. Medical Officer, Liwa

Health Centre, Batinah Region.

CHILD DEVELOPMENT/GROWTH.

 

1988;V(1):13-15. Medical Officer, Liwa Health Centre,

Batinah Region.

 

Utility of growth cards is described.

GROWTH/CHILD DEVELOPMENT.

 

 

pre-school children. August 1987;IV(1):30-33. Senior

Paediatrician; Medical Officer, Sohar Hospital; Medical

Officer, Batinah Region.

 

Report of a survey conducted to assess nutritional status

of pre-school children attending various health

facilities in Batinah Region.

CHILD NUTRITION/NUTRITION.

 

 

community in child health activities. February 1987;

III(3):47-48. Senior Administrative Officer, Tanam

Central Hospital.

CHILD WELFARE/COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES.

 

infection in the Paediatric Unit. February 1987;III(3):

45-46. Clinical Teacher Paediatric Nursing, Al-Nahdha

Hospital.

 

Abstract of lectures from the Symposium on Infection

Control held in December 1986 under the auspices of the

Ministry of Health.

INFECTION CONTROL/CHILD WELFARE.

 

1985;II(2):3-6. Senior Consultant Paediatrician and

Administrative Head, Paediatric Services, Oman.

 

The very fact that everywhere you go in the villages you

find children of all ages running around and playing, the

fact that 190,000 pupils attend school (where did they

come from if they are not surviving?) the fact that when

you visit KORAN preschools they are packed with little

children, the fact that as compared to 1977 (when the

author first saw Oman) mothers no longer tell you that

they had 10 pregnancies and only have two surviving

children, are all real indicators that child survival in

Oman has changed in the last ten years.

CHILD WELFARE.

 

setting-up of Well-Baby Clinics : a feasibility study.

November 1986;III(2):43-50. Medical Officer, Sumail

Hospital.

 

At a time when both health care and research capable of

improving it have become increasingly expensive,

spontaneous evolution of health system for children and

their mothers becomes unlikely. In an effort to make the

delivery of health care for babies and their mothers more

efficient and effective, a follow-up clinic was

envisioned in Sumail Hospital last December, to give a

holistic approach in the delivery of the basic health

services for newborn babies and their mothers, a clinic

suitable for tackling the basic problems responsible for

the majority of all children's deaths and illnesses such

as poor nutritional health, malnutrition-related

infections, diarrhoea and the six communicable diseases.

It was formally launched in January 1, 1986, coinciding

with the nationwide programme of the Ministry of Health

for comprehensive child and mother care. A 6-month trial

study has been done and the following results, problems

encountered, and recommendations are presented.

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE/CHILD WELFARE/DELIVERY OF HEALTH

CARE.

 

 

February 1992;VIII(3):23-25. Senior Specialist Surgery,

Nizwa Central Hospital; Junior Specialist Radiology,

Royal Hospital.

 

Gallstone ileus is a rare cause of intestinal

obstruction, which occurs due to luminal impaction of

gallstone in the small bowel. It was first described by

Barthion in 1654. Courvoisier reported 131 cases of

gallstone ileus in 1890, with a mortality rate of about

44 percent. It is responsible for one to three percent of

all mechanical obstructions and occurs exclusively in

elderly persons. As the symptoms are elusive, diagnosis

is often difficult and usually delayed. A case of

gallstone ileus, diagnosed pre-operatively is reported.

INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION/CHOLELITHIASIS.

 

 

1993;IX(3):53-54. Librarian, Royal Hospital Library.

CHOLERA.

 

 

diagnosis. August 1985;II(1):15-19. Senior Consultant

Gastroenterology; Specialist Physician, Al-Nahdha

Hospital.

 

When confronted by a patient with cholestasis, the over-

riding objective is to determine whether a potentially

treatable cause of cholestasis is present without

subjecting the patient to needless risk, or discomfort.

Clinical judgement plays an exceedingly important role in

the approach to the cholestasic patient. The initial task

of the clinician is to determine whether the patient is

or is not likely to have biliary obstruction. If biliary

obstruction is not likely, then an invasive work-up is

usually not indicated. In contrast, most causes of

biliary obstruction are not self-limited and definitive

or palliative treatment requires active intervention.

CHOLESTASIS.

 

 

report of two cases and a review of the literature.

February 1988;IV(3):36-39. Junior Specialist; Senior

Consultant, Department of Orthopaedics, Traumatology and

Rehabilitation, Khoula Hospital.

 

Two cases of chondrosarcoma in rather flat bones, along

with the clinical findings, radiological appearances and

microscopic features are presented. Chondrosarcoma can be

classified into four types; A. Primary -Low grade arising

in adult life; B. Secondary - Malignant transformation of

benign cartilagenous lesion. From Enchondroma of

Exostosis; C. Mesenchymal - Rare, seen in skull, spine,

ribs or pelvis; D. Dedifferenciated - Rare, but in long

bones.

CHONDROSARCOMA.

 

 

the third ventricle in an infant. February 1994;X(3):38-

41. Senior Medical Officer, Khoula Hospital.

CHOROID PLEXUS/PAPILLOMA.

 

 

IX(2):37-38. Department of Child Health, Royal Hospital.

FRAGILE X SYNDROME/CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES.

 

 

XII(3):24-28. Professor & Chair, Department of Family

Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

 

In this paper three questions have been addressed: what

are common chronic illness? how should prevention be

approached using epidemiological principles? and what are

specific examples for and against secondary prevention

based upon current evidence?

CHRONIC DISEASE.

 

Sohar Hospital. Department of Internal Medicine. Protocol

for the management of hypertension, diabetes and other

chronic disorders : review and follow up clinic. August

1989;VI(1):11-19. Department of Internal Medicine, Sohar

Hospital.

HYPERTENSION/DIABETES MELLITUS/CHRONIC DISEASE.

 

 

Churg-Strauss disease. November 1994;XI(2):36-37.

Department of Medicine, Tanam Central Hospital.

CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME.

 

 

1991;VII(4):39-40. Chief Technician Microbiology, Royal

Hospital.

COMPUTERS/CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS.

 

 

IV(3):41-42. Ex-Director Medical Services, Sultan of

Oman's Armed Forces.

COELENTERATE VENOMS/JELLYFISH.

 

August 1985;II(1):23-28. Senior Medical Officer, Arrahma

Hospital.

 

A worldwide increase in jellyfish population is baffling

marine biologists. As such more and more accidents due to

jellyfish and other familiar venomous coelenterates are

being recorded. Knowledge of these spineless sea

creatures will help effective medical management (to

mimimize such hazards).

JELLYFISH/COELENTERATE VENOMS.

 

 

May 1993;IX(4):17-19. Specialist Surgery; Medical

Officer, Nizwa Central Hospital.

COLOSTOMY/NEOPLASM METASTASIS/CARCINOMA.

 

 

community in child health activities. February 1987;

III(3):47-48. Senior Administrative Officer, Tanam

Central Hospital.

CHILD WELFARE/COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES.

 

retrospective analysis. August 1993;X(1):12-17. Junior

Specialist Paediatrics, Sur Hospital.

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES/INFANT CARE.

 

in Oman. May 1990;VI(4):15-19. Associate Professor,

Department of Family & Community Health, Sultan Qaboos

University; Medical Officer, Funjah Health Centre,

Ministry of Health.

 

The paper describes the purposes and structure of the

community studies program at Sultan Qaboos University,

with its emphasis on long term student involvement in a

particular community.

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES/HEALTH EDUCATION.

 

mothers attending Sohar Hospital. November 1988;V(2):29-

32. Senior Medical Officer; Specialist Child Health;

Nursing Officer, Sohar Hospital.

 

310 mothers were interviewed on mother and child care

issues with the aim to assess the impact of the health

education programme and how to improve it.

HEALTH EDUCATION/COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES.

 

training and service programme in rural Saudi Arabia.

February 1988;IV(3):2-6. Associate Professor; Lecturer

Community Medicine; Dean, King Faisal University, Dammam,

Saudi Arabia.

 

The study was conducted to identify socio-demographic

characteristics of rural Saudi population, to use the

data to formulate a need-oriented field training

programme for medical students and plan comprehensive

health services for the area.

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES/MEDICAL EDUCATION.

 

 

guidelines for the Sultanate of Oman. November 1991;

VIII(2):30-35. Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral

Sciences; Research Assistant, College of Medicine, Sultan

Qaboos University.

 

The development of our current understanding of

schizophrenia is explored to illustrate integration of

wide views in the care and management of such illness

into a single whole.

COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY/SCHIZOPHRENIA.

 

 

with surgical subsystem. May 1991;VII(4):41-42. Senior

Registrar Surgery, Royal Hospital.

COMPUTERS/SURGERY.

 

1991;VII(4):39-40. Chief Technician Microbiology, Royal

Hospital.

COMPUTERS/CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS.

 

making. May 1991;VII(4):38-39. Consultant Surgeon,

Royal Hospital.

DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED/COMPUTERS.

 

May 1991;VII(4):40-41. Consultant Surgeon, Royal

Hospital.

COMPUTERS/INFORMATION SYSTEMS.

 

 

defects. November 1989;VI(2):31-33. Specialist; Head of

Plastic Surgery, Department of Plastic & Reconstructive

Surgery, Khoula Hospital.

 

A combination of hinge flat and posterior auricular flap

in the repair of conchal defects is described.

CONCHAL.

 

 

haemorrhagic conjunctivitis. November 1989;VI(2):34-38.

Senior Specialist Ophthalmology; Department of

Ophthalmology & Pathology, Sultan Qaboos Hospital,

Salalah.

CONJUNCTIVITIS/HEMORRHAGIC DIATHESIS.

 

 

I(4):21-24. Ophthalmologist, District Hospital, Sur.

 

A clinical study of 100 cases of acute haemorrhagic

conjunctivitis was done at District Hospital, Sur. Many

interesting features like very high incidence of corneal

involvement, follicular hypertrophy, and enlargement of

preauricular lymphnode were noted. A virology study is

suggested to understand the exact etiology of the

disease.

CONJUNCTIVITIS, ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC.

 

 

III(2):9-14. Consultant Paediatrician, Al-Nahdha

Hospital.

 

Convulsions in childhood should always be taken

seriously. It is best to consider convulsions in the

childhood in two different age groups - new born infants

and older children, as the etiology and management

differs considerably.

CONVULSIONS.

 

 

carboprost to arrest postpartum haemorrhage. Feburary

1994;X(3):45-46. Specialist; Junior Specialist; Senior

Consultant, Sultan Qaboos Hospital, Salalah.

CORBOPROST/HEMORRHAGE.

 

 

: one year review of activities. November 1985;II(2):7-

14. Senior Consultant Physician, Al-Nahdha Hospital.

CORONARY CARE UNIT.

 

 

August 1995;XII(1):4-10. Senior Consultant Physician,

Al-Nahdha Hospital.

CORONARY DISEASE.

 

1995;XII(1):5-10. Senior Consultant Physician, Al-Nahdha

Hospital.

CORONARY DISEASE.

 

 

nursing practice. February 1995;XI(3):23-26. Nurse

Tutor, Department of Mental Health Studies, Whittington

Hospital, London.

 

Illustrates that the use of counselling skill is

indispensable to effective nursing practice. It suggests

that it is through institutional support and appropriate

training programmes that counselling skill will develop

as an effective tool in nursing practice.

COUNSELING/NURSING.

 

 

suprasellar craniopharyngiomas. November 1989;VI(2):43-

47. Junior Specialist, Khoula Hospital.

CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA/HEMIPLEGIA/DIENCEPHALON.

 

 

1993;IX(1):29-30. Department of Endocrinology and

Metabolic Diseases, Khoula Hospital.

MYXEDEMA/CRETINISM.

 

 

survey : Orthopaedic Unit. November 1990;VII(2):27-28.

Department of Infection Control, Al-Nahdha Hospital.

CROSS INFECTION/INFECTION CONTROL.

 

survey II : Obstetrics & Gynaecology Unit. May 1991;

VII(4):6-8. Department of Infection Control, Al-Nahdha

Hospital.

CROSS INFECTION/INFECTION CONTROL.

 

survey III : Burns and Plastic Unit. February 1992;

VIII(3):8-9. Department of Infection Control, Al-Nahdha

Hospital.

CROSS INFECTION/INFECTION CONTROL/MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL.

 

November 1985;II(2):82. Nursing Officer, Nizwa Central

Hospital.

CROSS INFECTION/INFECTION CONTROL.

 

puncture always necessary? February 1986;II(3):14-17.

Microbiologist, Al-Nahdha Hospital.

INFECTION CONTROL/CROSS INFECTION.

 

 

of cutaneous vasculitis due to essential

cryoglobulinemia. May 1992;VIII(4):28-30. Chief; Junior

Specialist, Department of Dermatology, Al-Nahdha

Hospital.

CRYOGLOBULINEMIA.

 

 

(palpebral type). November 1987;IV(2):17-20. Junior

Specialist; Specialist, Ophthalmologists, Al-Nahdha

Hospital.

 

A report on the results of treatment of the palpebral

type of this condition by means of cryo application.

CRYOSURGERY.

 

 

unilateral twin testes. August 1990;VII(1):31-32.

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sultan Qaboos

Hospital, Salalah.

 

An unusual case of cryptorchism is presented in which

both the testes were on the same (right) side. One of

them was normally placed in the scrotum while the other

was in the ipsilateral inguinal canal, alongwith an

indirect inguinal hernia. The left side of his scrotum

was empty.

TESTIS/CRYPTORCHISM.

 

 

hygroma of parotid gland. November 1995;XII(2):32-33.

Medical Officers; Specialist, Department of Surgery, Ibra

Central Hospital.

PAROTID GLAND/CYSTIC FIBROSIS.

 

 

May 1990;VI(4):46-50. Senior Specialist Surgeon, Nizwa

Central Hospital.

VESICO-URETRAL REFLUX/CYSTOSTOMY.

 

 

audit of cervical smear evaluation with reference to

follow up smears and/or tissue studies as a part of the

cytology laboratory quality assurance program. February

1994;X(3):14-18. Cytology Laboratory, Royal Hospital.

 

As part of Quality Assurance Programme in the Cytology

Laboratory of the Royal Hospital, all abnormal cervical

smears received in 1991 were compared to their subsequent

smears and/or tissue studies.

CYTOLOGY/QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE.

 

 

in an infant : an unusual presentation. February 1992;

VIII(3):19-20. Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Royal

Hospital.

 

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in infancy is well

documented though rarely recognised. We describe an

infant presenting with cataracts and persistent asites

associated with CMV hepatitis.

CYTOMEGALIC INCLUSION DISEASE.

 

 

Seroprevalence of rubella, cytomegalovirus, measles and

toxoplasmosis among pregnant women in Oman. February

1996;XII(3):6-10. Department of Child Health; Department

of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos

University.

 

Serum samples collected from pregnant women in different

regions of Oman were tested for IgG antiboides against

rubella and measles viruses, cytomegalovirus (CVM) and

Toxoplasma gondii by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays.

None of these women had been vaccinated against measles

and rubella.

The results show that most of Omani women of childbearing

age have had rubella, CMV and measles infection. In

addition, the data suggest that natural immunity to

rubella in this country is commonly acquired before

puberty.

CYTOMEGALOVIRUSES/RUBELLA, CONGENITAL/MEASLES/

TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL.