Vol. 71 No. 1 (2021): February

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Editorial

• COMBINING THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

  Khadija Qamar, Faiza Kiran

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Original Articles

• MALIGNANCY IN MULTINODULAR GOITER-POST THYROIDECTOMY: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY

  Fizza Naeem, Sayed Nusrat Raza, Taimoor Ashraf Khan

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• IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL EXPRESSION OF ANDROGEN RECEPTOR IN TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CARCINOMA AT ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY, RAWALPINDI

  Amna Ameer, Farhan Akhtar, Hafeez Ud Din, Rabia Ahmad

  7-11

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• NON-INVASIVE TOOLS TO ASSESS THE RISK OF VARICES-NEEDING-TREATMENT IN CIRRHOSIS SECONDARY TO HCV

  Laima Alam, Farrukh Saeed

  12-17

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• RELATIONSHIP OF POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AND QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG RENAL FALIURE PATIENTS

  Neelam Ehsan, Nayab ., Adam Khan, Amna Khan Shahid

  18-23

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• CLINICAL PROFILE AND SHORT TERM OUTCOME OF HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY AMONG BIRTH ASPHXIATED BABIES IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

  Hafsa Niaz, Jawad Jalil, Qamar Uz Zaman Khan, Faisal Basheer, Shahzad Akhtar, Naila Hamid

  24-28

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• CLINICAL AND LABORATORY FEATURES OF ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS: EXPERIENCE AT A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN LAHORE, PAKISTAN

  Muhammad Zeeshan Aslam, Asadullah kakkar, Haseeb Ahmed Khan, Saira Elaine Anwar khan

  29-33

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• COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF TACROLIMUS 0.03% OINTMENT VS OLOPATADINE 0.2% EYE DROPS IN THE TREATMENT OF VERNAL KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS

  Hassan Sajjad Rathore, Shahzad Saeed, M. Ahsan Mukhtar, Umar Ijaz, Asad Habib, Iqra Ghaus

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• COMPARISON OF POSTOPERATIVE PAIN SCORE FOLLOWING TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS PLANE BLOCK VERSUS PLACEBO, IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING ELECTIVE TOTAL ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY UNDER GENERAL ANAESTHESIA

  Raja Muhammad Bilal, Bilal Humayun Khan Durrani, Rao Ali Shan Khan

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• COMPARISON OF SOLIFENACIN VERSUS COMBINATION OF SOLIFENACIN AND TAMSULOSIN IN IMPROVING UNILATERAL DOUBLE-J STENT RELATED LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOMS - A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL

  Muhammad Tanveer Sajid, Sami Ur Rehman, Muhammad Akmal, Hussain Ahmad, Zahoor Iqbal Mirza, Arshad Mahmood

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• CONVENTIONAL SURGERY V/S INTERVENTIONAL MANAGEMENT OF PERIPANCREATIC COLLECTIONS RELATED TO ACUTE PANCREATITIS

  Talha Yasin, Nasir Mehmud Wattuu, Qasim Butt, Kamran Safdar, Saad Rao

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• DIAGNOSTIC ADEQUACY AND HISTOLOGICAL OUTCOME OF PIPELLE ENDOMETRIAL BIOPSIES

  Tariq Sarfraz, Hareem Tahir, Larayeb Wazir, Humaira Tariq, Saleem Ahmed Khan, Syed Raza Jaffar

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• CLINICAL EFFICACY OF RECOMBINANT FACTOR VIII FC FUSION PROTEIN IN HAEMOPHILIA A PATIENT RECEIVING ON DEMAND TREATMENT ONLY

  Saima Zahir, Tahira Zafar, Altaf Hussain, Hamid Saeed Malik, Pervez Ahmed, Saleem Ahmed Khan

  62-66

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• D-1 / PD-L1 EXPRESSION IN INVASIVE BREAST CARCINOMA / CANCER

  Sammeen Salim, Muhammad Asif, Rabia Ahmed, Muhammad Tahir Khadim

  67-72

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• ASSOCIATION OF MARITAL STATUS, EARLY MARRIAGE AND PARITY WITH FIBROADENOMA

  Muhammad Saeed Akhtar, Anas Bin Saif, Humera Zafar, Ahmed Mushtaq, Tahsin Hashmi, Mansoor Tariq

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• STUDY OF DELIVERY PRACTICES OF OXYGEN BY HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN ACUTE EXACERBATION OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE

  Aamir Waheed, Aftab Anwar, Syed Arif Saeed Zaman, Samia Khaliq

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• CURRENT PRACTICES OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT IN OPERATION THEATERS: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY

  Saira Mahboob, Tariq Mehmood, Amna Gulrez, Anum Sultan, Zeshan Nasir, Taimur Azam Khan

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• MALARIAL PARASITE SCREENING OF TROOPS RETURNING FROM UN MISSION TO PAKISTAN

  Muhammad Qaiser Alam Khan, Nasira Shaheen, Romesa Qaiser Khan

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• ANTERIOR NASAL PACKING POST SUBMUCOUS RESECTION (SMR): A COMPARISON BETWEEN REMOVAL ON 1ST VERSUS 2ND POST OPERATIVE DAY

  Sunarays Akhtar, Uzma Gul

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• QUANTIFICATION OF RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER FOR EARLY DETECTION OF ANTERIOR VISUAL PATHWAY LESIONS

  Noureen Malik, Hannan Masud, Muhammad Manzoor Awan

  96-100

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• DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF DRUG SCREENING IMMUNOASSAYS IN DRUG FACILITATED CRIMES

  Sadia Dawood, Ayesha Hafeez, Aamir Ijaz, Summera Moeen, Asif Ali Memon, Sumaira Mubarik

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• HIGH ALTITUDE AND VENOUS THROMBOSIS: FREQUENCY AND RISK FACTORS

  Qamar Un-Nisa Choudry, Raheel Iftikhar, Manzur Qadir, Tariq Mehmood Satti, Ghassan Omair, Syed Kamran Mehmood

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• SPECTRUM OF OPTIC NEUROPATHIES PRESENTING IN NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY CLINIC AT AFIO

  Umer Ijaz, Asad Habib, Hassan Sajjad Rathore, Muhammad Imran Sarwar Khan

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• NORMAL CORONARY ANGIOGRAMS IN PATIENTS OF SUSPECTED CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: A SIX YEAR STUDY AT ARMY CARDIAC CENTRE LAHORE

  Ahmad Usman, Nigar Johar, Fraz Ahmad, Khurram Shahzad, Muhammad Faheem Iqbal Malik, Amna Rashdi

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• SOFOSBUVIR-VELPATASVIR THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS C GENOTYPE 3

  Arif Qayyum Khan, Hala Mansoor, Samina Fida, Saba Saif, Javed Iqbal, Muhammad Siddique

  122-28

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• THROMBOCYTOPENIA IN CASES OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION

  Nadia Pervez, Saleem Ahmed Khan, Syed Rizwan Hussain

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• THE SUCCESS OF ULTRASOUND GUIDED INSERTION OF CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER VERSUS LANDMARK TECHNIQUE

  Bilal Munir, Fahim Ullah Naz, Salman Saleem, Amna Khalid, Adnan Aqil Khan, Hassan Ud Din

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• COMPARISON OF ORAL CHLOROQUINE WITH SYSTEMIC MEGLUMINE ANTIMONIATE IN TREATMENT OF CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS

  Muhammad Farooq, Muhammad Saad Farooq, Arfan Ul Bari, Tariq Mehmood Malik

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• OPEN PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY FOR SMALL RENAL TUMOURS: TECHNICAL AND ONCOLOGICAL OUTCOMES

  Qamar Zia, Mudassar Sajjad, Muhammad Akmal, Faran Kiyani, Muhammad Nawaz, Sohail Razzaq

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• COMPARATIVE IN- VITRO EVALUATION OF VANCOMYCIN MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATIONBY AGAR DILUTION AND E-STRIP IN METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS

  Sheroze Ilyas, Tehmina Munir, Rabia Sadaf, Mehreen Gilani

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• DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF IN-HOUSE BIOCHEMICAL TESTING FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ENTEROCOCCUS SPECIES ISOLATED FROM VARIOUS CLINICAL SPECIMENSAGAINST VITEK 2 SYSTEM

  Mariam Sarwar, Syed Adeel Hussain Gardezi, Gohar Zaman, Aamer Ikram, Wajid Hussain, Muhammad Tahir Khadim

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• EVALUATION OF PERIPAPILLARY RETINAL NERVE FIBRE LAYER AND CENTRAL MACULAR THICKNESS INADULTS WITH HYPEROPIC ANISOMETROPIC AMBLYOPIA

  Tanveer Ahmed, Khizar Niazi, Sobia Usman Shah, Junaid Afsar Khan, Husnain Muhammad Bukhsh, Muhammad Arslan Ashraf

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• TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF GENDER, ADVANCED AGE, LONGER DURATION OF ILLNESS AND HIGHER GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN LEVELS ON MEAN PLATELET VOLUME (MPV) IN PATIENTS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS

  Umair Ijaz Malik, Tariq Bashir Tareen, Uzair Ijaz Malik, Hina Naseer, Mehar Rehman

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• PERFORMANCE OF PROMIS-29 (PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM-29) IN PATIENTS OF RHEUMATIOD ARTHRITIS

  Naveed Aslam Lashari, Saira E.A Khan, Shabnam Batool, Asadullah Khan, Zia u din

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• EFFECTS OF ORAL FLUIDS AND INTRAVENOUS FLUIDS IN THE IMPROVEMENT OF AMNIOTIC FLUID INDEX DURING THIRD TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY

  Mehwish Malik, Samina Irshaad, Nadia Ahmed Bokhari, Wardah Ajaz Qazi, Asia Raza, Kanwal Bashir

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• GROWTH HORMONE LEVELS AT INDUCED HYPOGLYCEMIA; AN EFFECTIVE WAY OF DIAGNOSING GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY

  Nida Basharat, Asif Ali Memon, Sumbal Nida, Naveed Asif, Saima Shakil Malik, Muhammad Tahir Khadim

  184-89

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• ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN FANCONI ANEMIA; A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE

  Tariq Azam Khattak, Muhammad Farhan, Tariq Ghafoor, Tariq Mahmood Satti, Qamar Un Nisa Chaudhry, Mehreen Ali Khan

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• PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA: CLINICAL COURSE AND FREQUENCY OF RESISTANCE AGAINST CHLOROQUINE

  Muhammad Asif Nizami, Adnan Khan, Sami Wahid

  196-200

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• COMPARISON OF FREQUENCY OF IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA IN INFANTS ON EXCLUSIVE BREAST FEED, FORTIFIED MILK AND COW’S MILK

  Abdul Wahab Siddique, Faisal Basheer, Tanveer Ashraf, Sidrah Naseem

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• PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION IN HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

  Gulzar Ali, Imran Khan, Muhammad Amir, Malik Nadeem Azam Khan

  206-10

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• FREQUENCY OF FEVER AND CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PLEOCYTOSIS IN ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS IN CHILDREN

  Nasreen Ali

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• ENDOSCOPIC FINDING IN PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEED - A STUDY FROM A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

  Nadeem Zia, Laima Alam, Nadeem Ashraf

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• ASSESSMENT OF JAW BONE DENSITY IN TERMS OF HOUNSFIELD UNITS USING CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY FOR DENTAL IMPLANT TREATMENT PLANNING

  Myra Ahmed, Yasir Ikram, Farheen Qureshi, Muhammad Sharjeel, Zubair Ahmed Khan, Khurram Ataullah

  221-27

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• COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EFFECTIVENESS OF VENLAFAXINE, DULOXETINE AND SERTRALINE IN MANAGEMENT OF DIABETIC SENSORY NEUROPATHY

  Nabila Shaukat, Shazia Nisar, Usman Sajid, Osman Ali Jan, Amjad Mahmood, Huma Zahid

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• FREQUENCY OF HEPATITIS B AND C IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING CATARACT SURGERY IN A TERTIARY CARE EYE HOSPITAL

  Summaya Khan, Aisha Rafique, Muhammad Azeem Khizer, Omar Zafar

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• COLLUM’S ANGLE AND CROWN ROOT ANGLE OF MAXILLARY INCISORS IN DIFFERENT MALOCCLUSIONS

  Saadia Panezai, Nasrullah Mengal, Sadia Nisar Ahmed

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• COMPARISON OF INTER-MAXILLARY FIXATION SCREWS WITH ARCH BARS FOR THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN ESTABLISHING OCCLUSION BEFORE OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION IN MANDIBULAR FRACTURES

  Wajid Mairaj, Irfan Shah, Muhammad Nazeer Khan, Ali Akhtar Khan, Adnan Babar, Saad Mahmood

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• COMPLIANCE TO SURVIVING SEPSIS CAMPAIGN HOUR–1 BUNDLE–A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY AMONG PHYSICIANS INVOLVED IN CRITICAL CARE IN PAKISTAN

  Rehana Feroze, Muhammad Tariq, Abdul Wasay Toor

  249-54

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• EVALUATION OF PATTERNS OF IMPACTED THIRD MOLARS AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH VITAL STRUCTURES BY RADIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION

  Novaira Waseem, Muhammad Adil Asim, Ayesha Maqsood, Muhammad Wajahat Ghafoor, Noor-Ul-Ain Mirza, Muhammad Omer Khalid

  255-60

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• EFFECT OF SUBCUTANEOUS RECOMBINANT HUMAN ERYTHROPOIETIN ON BLOOD PRESSURE IN PRE-DIALYSIS CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CKD) PATIENTS

  Muhammad Sajid Hussain, Qasim Raza, Muhammad Omer Aamir, Nadia Murtaza, Sadia Naureen, Mehwish Razzaq

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• EFFICACY OF TAP BLOCK AND PLACEBO FOR PAIN IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING CSECTION SURGERY

  Usman Khalid, Kaukab Majeed, Maihmoona Yasmeen, Khalid Mehmood, Muhammad Ali Muazzam, Jawad Rehmani

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• EFFECT OF PRE-COOLING THE INJECTION SITE ON PAIN PERCEPTION IN PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY

  Shahid Islam, Saqib Rashid, Abu-Bakar Shaikh, Muhammad Ali, Tasleem Hosein, Syed Hussain Askary

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• ORAL HYGIENE PRACTICES OF FIRST AND FINAL YEAR DENTAL STUDENTS AT FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

  Emaan Ahsin, Sadia Ahsin

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• FREQUENCY OF DIAGNOSTIC CONCORDANCE IN CORE BREAST BIOPSIES OF CATEGORY B3 AND B4 AT A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE

  Ghazala Sadaf, Muhammad Tahir Khadim, Rabia Ahmed, Muhammad Asif, Safina Ahmed, Shahid Jamal, Sammeen Salim

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• COMPARISON OF SHORT TERM NEONATAL MORBIDITIES IN LATE PRETERM VS TERM INFANTS

  Ali Abbas, Haider Nisar, Qudrat Ullah Malik, Sajid Ali, Bushra Anwar, Munir Akmal Lodhi

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• COMPARISON OF ATTITUDES OF GENERAL DENTIST VS PAEDIATRIC DENTISTS TOWARDS PAIN MANAGEMENT IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN PAKISTAN

  Madeeha Bangash, Laila Mustafa, Aamna Mansur, Sahd Rashid, Muhammad Irshad, Syed Muhammad Junaid

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• A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FREQUENCY OF RETENTION OF FLOWABLE NANOCLUSTER COMPOSITE AND RESIN MODIFIED GLASS IONOMERS IN NON CARIOUS CERVICAL LESIONS IN MAXILLARY MOLARS

  Hannan Humayun Khan, Mafaza Alam, Syed Muzammil Hussain Shah, Saman Mehmood, Ajmal Yousaf, Pir Jawad Ali Shah

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• FREQUENCY OF HYPERURICEMIA IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH AGE OF PATIENT

  Syed Saif Ul Hassan Shah, Usman Iqbal, Ejaz Ahmad

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• DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTIONAL DISTTRESS SCALE FOR ADOLESCENTS

  Tahira Parveen, Zaqia Bano

  309-13

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• PREVALENCE OF ANTERIOR CROSSBITE AND ITS RELEVANCE IN CLASS I AND III MALOCCLUSIONS

  Erum Amin, Rozina Nazir, Azhar Ali Bangash

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• SIGNIFICANCE OF DOPPLER RI AND SYSTOLIC PEAK OF BREAST CARCINOMA LESIONS SEEN ON MAMMOGRAPHY

  Sehrish Waqar, Saima Ameer, Mubashar Ahmed Bajwa, Saman Mubashar Bajwa, G.R Bajwa, Samia Tahir

  319-22

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• SEROLOGICAL VERUS HISTOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS IN PEDIATRIC CELIAC DISEASE: IS THERE A NEED FOR SMALL BOWEL BIOPSY?

  Aftab Anwar, Huma Arshad Cheema, Anjum Saeed

  323-27

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• ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL EFFICACY OF COOLING GEL PATCH

  `Muhammad Hussain, Muhammad Asim, Muhammad Atif, Naveed Anjum

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• CORRELATION OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALISM WITH ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN FINAL YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS

  Badar Murtaza, Abid Ashar, Sohail Sabir

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• EFFECT OF NIGELLA SATIVA ON SERUM TESTOSTERONE LEVELS IN LETROZOLE INDUCED POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME IN MICE

  Noreen Anwar, Shabnam Hamid, Amer Nadeem, Ayesha Asad, Naureen Waseem, Nomana Mehmood

  338-42

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• DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF RESISTIVE INDEX IN DOPPLER IMAGING IN DIAGNOSING MALIGNANT AND BENIGN ADNEXAL MASSES

  Nadia Irshad, Ammara Arshad, Zahra Nasrullah

  343-46

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• O’CONOR (TRANSABDOMINAL) REPAIR: IS IT ALWAYS NECESSARY TO INTERPOSE A FLAP IN SIMPLE VESICO-VAGINAL FISTULA? A COMPARATIVE STUDY

  Asma Rizwan, Qamar Zia, Adil Khurshid, Mudassar Sajjad, Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Akmal, Faran Kiani

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• THE ATTITUDES OF MEDICAL STUDENTS TOWARDS CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF HISTOLOGY

  Naureen Waseem, Aaqiba Rasheed, Maria Gill, Ayesha Asad, Muhammad Omar Shamim, Fatima Waseem

  351-56

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Case Reports

• HERLYN-WERNER-WUNDERLICH SYNDROME-ROLE OF IMAGING IN TIMELY AND CORRECT DIAGNOSIS

  Hidayat Ullah, Atiq Ur Rehman Slehria, Rashid Mahmood, Jehan Akbar

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• AMYAND HERNIA: A RARE SURGICAL VARIATION

  Ghufran Ahmed, Imran Ashraf, Muhammad Ali Muazzam, Muhammad Shoaib, Muhammad Farooq Shahid, Usman Shah Bukhari

  367-69

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• BILATERAL CLEFT PALATE REPAIR BY USING TONGUE FLAP FOLLOWED BY ALVEOLAR BONE GRAFTING - A CASE REPORT

  Memuna Kausar Satti, Zainab Qasim, Farwa Rais, Ayousha Iqbal, Maahin Shoaib, Asad Ghaffar

  370-72

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• FAVOURE RACOUCHOT SYNDROME WITH SCALP INVOLVEMENT: A CASE REPORT

  Sabah Ibad, Moizza Tahir

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Research Protocol

• EFFECTIVENESS OF TRANSCUTANEOUS BILIRUBIN (TCBR) MEASUREMENT IN HIGH RISK NEONATES AND TO EVALUATE THE VALIDITY OF TRANSCUTANEOUS BILIRUBIN (TCBR) WITH TOTAL SERUM BILIRUBIN (TSBR) LEVELS IN BOTH LOW AND HIGH RISK NEONATES AT A TERTIARY CARE CENTER OF....

  Durre Shahwar, Sabina Ariff, Batha Tariq, Arjumand Rizvi, Syed Rehan, Ali Shabbir Hussain

  357-63

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