Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal

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Editorial

• DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN MAD AND BAD: FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY SERVICES MAY BE THE NEED OF THE HOUR

  Usama Bin Zubair

  878-79

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Original Articles

• FREQUENCY OF HEADACHE AND IMPROVEMENT WITH THE TREATMENT AMONG THE PATIENTS OF EPILEPSY

  Fatima Naseem Malik, Usama Bin Zubair, Khurram Haq Nawaz, Saeed Arif, Asif Hashmat, Wasim Alamgir

  880-84

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• LIPID-LOWERING EFFICACY OF 20 MG SIMVASTATIN VERSUS 5 MG ROSUVASTATIN IN PATIENTS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES

  Hafiz Muhammad Yasir Rehman, Abdul Latif Khattak, Taimoor Ashraf Khan, Abdul Moueed Tariq, Shahzeb Ahmed Satti, Rafi Ud Din

  885-89

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• GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME; THE SEASONAL TRENDS IN A COHORT OF PAKISTANI POPULATION FROM SOUTHERN PUNJAB

  Nadeem Ahmad, Zaheer Ahmed Gill, Saeed Bin Ayaz, Noreen Akhtar, Aamir Waheed Butt, Waseem Iqbal

  890-95

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• MATERNAL AND PERINATAL OUTCOME IN PREGNANCY INDUCED HYPERTENSIVE MOTHERS IN COMBINED MILITARY HOSPITAL, SIALKOT

  Jehan Ara Rafiq Baig, Muhammad Musarrat Jamal

  896-901

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• PATIENT SAFETY; INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE HOSPITAL ERRORS

  Sana Abbas, Amjad Akram, Syed Hamid Ali Shah, Rashid Iqbal, Beenish Abbas, Uzma Urooj

  902-09

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• EXPERIENCE OF ENDOSCOPIC REPAIR OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA

  Anwar Ul Haq, Muhammad Khan, Asif Alam Gul, Adnan Asghar

  910-15

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• EVALUATION OF THE EFFICACY OF CARDIAC SURGICAL ORIENTATION VIDEO IN DECREASING PREOPERATIVE ANXIETY IN PAKISTANI POPULATION

  Zainab Farid, Musfireh Siddiqeh, Raheel Aziz, Fakher- e -Fayaz, Hana Khurshid, Lubna Shaheen Khan, Jehanessa Abdel Rehman

  916-22

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• IMPACT OF 2.8MM CLEAR CORNEAL INCISION ON REFRACTIVE OUTCOME IN PHACOEMULSIFICATION PATIENTS

  Saquib Naeem, Amjad Akram, Shagufta Parveen

  923-27

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• ASSOCIATION OF CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY WITH AIRWAY DIMENSION AND VOLUME

  Sana Tariq, Azhar Ali Bangash, Faheem Nake Akhtar, Fatima Hamid, Munazza Saeed

  928-32

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• ASSOCIATION OF AGE WITH HEARING REHABILITATION AFTER COCHLEAR IMPLANT

  Fizza Naeem, Sayed Nusrat Raza, Taimoor Ashraf Khan, Um e Aiman

  933-37

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• TO DETERMINE CUT OFF OF FERTILITY PROFILE OF PATIENTS WITH ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME (AIS) AT DIFFERENT AGES IN PAKISTANI POPULATION

  Waqas Hanif, Naveed Asif, Muhammad Younas, Zujaja Hina Haroon, Qurat Ul Ain, Noreen .

  938-43

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• EFFECTIVENESS OF HAEMORRHOIDAL ARTERY LIGATION VIA PALPATORY

  Hassan Shabbir, Farhan Ahmed Majeed, Ahmed Raza, Umar Bashir, Mohsin Saleem Cheema, Ayema Shabbir, Saad-Ur-Rehman Khan

  944-48

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• THORACOPLASTY (TAILORED) REVISITED FOR HIGH RISK PATIENTS WITH NONRESOLVING TUBERCULOUS APICAL LUNG CAVITIES

  Asif Asghar, Mohammad Rashid Hasnain, Khan Amer

  949-55

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• CHEST X-RAY FINDINGS AND TYPES OF FOREIGN BODIES IN PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH COMPLAINTS OF TRACHEOBRONCHIAL FOREIGN BODY ASPIRATION; A NINE-YEAR MULTI-CENTER PROSPECTIVE STUDY

  Muhammad Rashid, Humaira Saleem, Saeed Bin Ayaz, Ijaz -Un- Nabi, Rashida Hussain, Faisal Manzoor

  956-61

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• COMPARISON OF PREDICTIVE ACCURACY OF TANAKA-JOHNSTON ANALYSIS, MELGACO FORMULA AND BHERWANI’S REGRESSION EQUATION FOR PATIENTS PRESENTING TO ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF DENTISTRY

  Faheem Nake Akhtar, Sana Tariq, Abdullah Jan, Erum Amin, Azhar Ali Bangash, Mehwish Khan

  962-66

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• IMPLEMENTATION OF STRUCTURED MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM TRAINING FOR NEONATAL RESUSCITATION

  Shabbir Hussain, Ahsan Sethi

  967-74

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• EVALUATION OF SYNERGISTIC EFFECT OF THUJAORIENTALIS WITH CIPROFLOXACIN AGAINST ESCHERICHIA COLI

  Hajra Mateen, Rizwan Faisal, Syeda Huma Khizar, Syed Hamid Habib

  975-82

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• DETERMINATION OF PHARMACOKINETIC PROFILE OF HIGH ORAL DOSE OF AN INNOVATOR BRAND OF ATORVASTATIN IN HEALTHY PAKISTANI VOLUNTEERS

  Imrana Maqsood, Zarafshan Bader, Ayesha Janjua, Shezadi Saba Imran, Aroosa Ishtiaq Butt, Mehwish Nawaz Qaisrani

  983-87

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• PREDICTION OF FEAR FACTORS BEFORE TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: A MIXED METHOD ANALYSIS ON ADVANCED KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS PATIENTS

  Muhammad Ikram, Sadia Ijaz, Munawer Latif Memon, Syed kamran Muhammad Shah, Sajid Ejaz Rao

  988-92

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• EFFECTS OF ANTENATAL COMPLICATIONS, APGAR SCORE AND BIRTH WEIGHTON PRETERM MORTALITY

  Saeed Zaman Khattak, Sajid Ali Shah, Kanwal Jehanzeb, Sajjad Sabir, Haroon Ur Rashid, Zia Ul Haq

  993-97

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• CYTOGENETIC ABNORMALITIES IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY AMENORRHEA

  Aysha Khan, Altaf Chaudhry, Hamid Malik, Ayesha Khurshid

  998-1002

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• COMPARATIVE EFFICACY OF ULTRASONOGRAPHY (USG) VERSUS MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY (MRCP) FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS

  Javed Anwar, Sidra Waheed, Waseem Raja

  1003-06

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• DETERMINATION OF RELAXANT EFFECT OF ROPIVACAINE AGAINST ACETYLCHOLINE AND BRADYKININ INDUCED AIRWAY CONTRACTION OF GUINEA PIGS

  Fatima Qasim Malik, Bushra Tayyaba Khan, Mahjabeen Sharif

  1007-12

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• DEPRESSION AND ASSOCIATED SOCIO DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS AMONG PERSONNEL REPORTING TO A FIELD HOSPITAL FOR ROUTINE MEDICAL CARE

  Muzafar Ahmed, Muhammad Ramzan Maher, Muhammad Farooq Malik, Nasser Ahmed Abbasi, Nazish Fatima, Syeda Saira Iqbal

  1013-18

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• EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DENGUE FEVER AND UTILITY OF DENGUE NS1 ANTIGEN RAPID DIAGNOSTIC POINT OF CARE TEST AT COMBINED MILITARY HOSPITAL MALIR

  Abeera Ahmed, Fahim Akhtar, Yasir Rafiq, Nasir Ahmed Rafiq, Shugufta Yousaf, Irfan Najam Sheen

  1019-22

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• ACCURACY OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

  Syeda Zakia Shah, Shahabuddin Siddiqui, Umair Ajmal

  1024-28

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• COMPARISON OF MEAN FALL IN POST-OPERATIVE HEMOGLOBIN LEVEL AFTER INTRA-ARTICULAR TRANSAMINE VERSUS INTRAENOUS TRANSAMINE IN TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY

  Abdul Qadir Khan, Mubashar Ahmed Bajwa, Syed Arsalan Haider Bukhari

  1029-33

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• PREVENTION OF HYPOTENTION AFTER SPINAL ANAESTHESIA IN ELECTIVE CAESAREAN SECTIONS

  Syed Jawad Rehmani, Asjad Sharif, Amna Gulrez

  1034-38

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• LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY: A STUDY OF DEMOGRAPHIC, MORPHOLOGICAL FACTORS AND IATROGENIC OCCURRENCES

  Muhammad Muttahhar Asim Niaz, Fahd Mudassar Hameed, Mudassira Zahid

  1039-44

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• CHEWING GUM TO HASTEN BOWEL RECOVERY IN CESAREAN SECTION: A RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL

  Sadia Zainab, Amina Akbar, Saira Mahboob, Shazia Munir

  1045-48

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• PROPHYLACTIC USE OF 17OH PROGESTERONE FOR PREVENTION OF PRETERM LABOUR IS EFFECTIVE

  Rabia Sajjad, Chaudary Amjad Ali, Asma Ansari

  1049-53

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• ASSOCIATION OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS WITH FIRST CONTACT AND MODE OF REFERRAL TO TERTIARY CARE PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY IN ISLAMABAD

  Sawera Mansoor, Taskeen Mansoor, Aneeqa Waseem

  1054-60

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• ASSOCIATION OF RISK FACTORS IN MILITARY PERSONNEL WITH PULMONARY EMBOLISM STATIONED AT HIGH ALTITUDE AND SEA LEVEL

  Rizwan Azam, Laima Alam, Jamal Ahmed, Mehmood Iqbal Malik, Zahra Asif Sukhera, Bushra Arif

  1061-65

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• EFFICACY OF HYDRALAZINE IN COMPARISON WITH LABETALOL FOR CONTROL OF SEVERE HYPERTENSION IN PATIENTS WITH ECLAMPSIA

  Mehwish Syed, Rizwan Faisal, Laiyla Shinwari, Afrah Aman, Rabia Nawaz, Sumayya .

  1066-70

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• PATIENTS’ AWARENESS AND PREFERENCE FOR BONE GRAFTS USED IN ORAL SURGERY

  Noor Ul Sabah Hussain, Shoaib Younus, Uzair Bin Akhtar, Farhan Javed, Malik Ali Hassan Sajid, Saud Iqbal

  1071-76

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• TITANIUM MESH VERSUS AUTOLOGOUS BONE GRAFT CRANIOPLASTY

  Babar Shamim, Awais Ali Khan, Muhammad Junaid Mushtaq, Amjad Saeed Abbassi, Ali Ahmed, Maria Shahzadi

  1077-80

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• IMPACT OF VITAMIN D3, ON HBA1C IN INDIVIDUALS WITH PRE-DIABETES

  Nausheen Ata, Muhammad Waqar Aslam Khan, Shabana Ali, Kulsoom Farhat, Noaman Ishaq, Ayman Zafar

  1081-85

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• IMMATURE GRANULOCYTE PERCENTAGE –A PREDICTOR OF INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT SETTING

  Ali Hyder, Nasir Uddin, Asad Mahmood, Rafia Mahmood, Muhammad Ijaz Iqbal

  1086-90

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• DIAGNOSIS OF MALARIA BY REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION IN CASES OF NEGATIVE MALARIAL PARASITE ON MICROSCOPY

  Hina Mushtaq, Mariam Raza, Makki Muhammad, Tarique Arian, Imran Khan, Nighat Afridi

  1091-95

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• CYSTATIN C AS A SCREENING BIOMARKER OF GESTATIONAL DIABETES MELLITUS

  Sadia Israr, Asma Hayat, Tariq Mahmood Ahmad, Qurat Ul Ain, Amna Saddique, Numan Majeed

  1096-1100

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• OUTCOMES OF ULTRASOUND GUIDED PLASMA RICH PROTEIN INJECTION IN CHRONIC PLANTAR FASCIITIS

  Shaukat Hayat Khan, Muhammad Shahbaz Raza, Iffat Ara, Rehan Wani, Khalid Mehmood, Anam Altaf

  1101-04

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• AGREEMENT BETWEEN CLINICAL FEATURES OF SCIATICA AND 3.0T MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING FINDINGS

  Saman Mubashar, Tasmia Mudassar, Beenish Bajwa, Mudassar Ahmed Bajwa, Mubashar Ahmed Bajwa, Aemen Shafqat Bazaz

  1105-08

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• ANCHORED CONJUNCTIVAL ROTATION FLAP VS CONJUNCTIVAL AUTOGRAFT TECHNIQUE IIN PRIMARY PTERYGIUM SURGERY AT COMBINED MILITARY HOSPITAL, PESHAWAR

  Kinza Shakil, Zaheer Uddin Babar, Zulfiqar Uddin Syed, Bushra Akbar, Farhan Halim, Adnan Halim

  1109-13

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• FAST FOOD ADDICTION, BODY ESTEEM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

  Ambreen Anjum, Iram Jahangir

  1114-18

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• DIVERSITY OF HISTOLOGICAL VARIANTS OF BREAST CANCER: A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL EXPERIENCE IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN

  Shumyla Beg, Ghulam Haider, Ejaz Khan, Aisha Shahid, Paras Memon, Raja Rahul, Bhunisha Pavan, Kiran Abbas

  1119-24

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• PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING SCALE FOR CANCER PATIENTS: REVISED VERSION

  Saima Riaz, Razia Anjum, Bushra Akram, Iram Naz, Salbia Abbas

  1125-32

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• COMPARISON OF EFFICACY OF CELECOXIB (SELECTIVE NON STEROIDAL ANTI INFLAMMATORY DRUG) VERSUS NAPROXEN (NON SELECTIVE NON STEROIDAL ANTI INFLAMMATORY DRUG) FOR POST ENDODONTIC PAIN

  Beenish Abbas, Sana Abbas, Madiha Sattar, Shoaib Rahim, Sidra Amir

  1133-37

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• IMPACT OF EARLY VS DELAYED ORAL FEEDING ON HOSPITAL STAY AFTER CAESAREAN SECTION UNDER REGIONAL ANESTHESIA

  Nadia Arif, Raja Qaseem Ahmed, Ayesha Arif, Bushra Zafar, Farrukh Shehzad

  1138-42

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• QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF ZINC SUPPLEMENTATION ON MEAN SERUM INSULIN LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 (IGF-1) AND INSULIN LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN-3 (IGFBP-3) LEVELS IN PAKISTANI SHORT STATURED CHILDREN

  Sadia Kirn, Amir Ijaz, Safia Fatima, Dilshad Ahmed Khan, Sarmad Nasir

  1143-47

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• EFFECT OF HEAD COVERING ON HYPOCALCAEMIA RESULTING FROM PHOTOTHERAPY IN FULL TERM NEONATES WITH HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA

  Ayesha Bibi, Waqas Alam, Imran Asghar, Rida Ali

  1148-52

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• FACTORS OF OBESITY AND PERSONALITY TRAITS AMONG MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN OF LAHORE

  Saima Ahmad, Amina Muazzam, Ambreen Anjum

  1153-57

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• NOVEL DIRECT ACTING ANTIVIRAL REGIMENS FOR PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC HEPATITIS C AND CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE STAGE 3 TO STAGE 5D

  Nauman Kashif, Zahid Farooq Baig, Shahzad Ashraf

  1158-63

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• EFFICACY OF CYCLOSPORINE EYE DROPS IN TREATMENT OF MEIBOMIAN GLAND DISEASE

  Fatima Khan, Summaya Khan, Amjad Akram, Imran Basit, Sadia Humayun, Shafaq Rabbani

  1164-69

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• ANALYSIS OF ONE-BEST TYPE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS AT ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE, RAWALPINDI

  Mubashir Sharif, Yawar Hayat Khan, Rahila Yasmin, Amna Amjad, Ayesha Aslam

  1170-73

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• EXCESS SCREEN BASED MEDIA USE, A PREDICTOR OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AND ITS SEVERITY?

  Muhammad Mehboob Ahmed, Shazia Maqbool, Jawaria Khalid

  1174-79

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• END-TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE MONITORING IN THE NEONATAL VENTILATED PATIENTS USING CAPNOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE

  Muhammad Shoaib, Shabbir Hussain, Zeeshan Ahmed, Asma Razzaq, Waqas Ahmed Farooqui

  1180-84

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• MATERNAL FACTORS CAUSING TWIN BIRTH WEIGHT DISCORDANCE AND ITS FREQUENNCY

  Uzma Afreen, Rozina Khanum, Nasreen Hasan Niazi, Shazia Firdos Chohan, Faiza Khanum, Sanober Afreen

  1185-87

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• POST DURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE: A COMPARISON OF MIDLINE AND PARAMEDIAN APPROACH OF SPINAL ANESTHESIA

  Zeeshan Nasir, Saira Mahboob, Tariq Mehmood, Syed Zaheer Haider

  1188-92

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• JOB SATISFACTION AND ITS DETERMINANTS AMONG CHILD PROTECTION OFFICERS, PUNJAB PAKISTAN: A CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY

  Tahira Zahoor, Ayesha Babar Kawish, Najm Us Saqib Khan, Azka Abid, Hina Sharif, Uzma Urooj, Tahir Butt

  1193-1200

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• COMPARISON OF IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY AND MICROSCOPIC FILM METHOD FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF MALARIA IN LIBERIA

  Syed Tanveer Abbas Gilani, Amjad Khan, Muhammad Ijaz, Muhammad Farooq

  1201-05

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• NEWLY ADMITTED DENTAL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ABOUT IDEAL QUALITIES OF DENTAL PROFESSIONALS

  Khurram Ataullah, Abid Ashar

  1206-10

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Short Communication

• DEVELOPING A CURRICULUM FOR PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL AND DENTAL EDUCATION: EVIDENCE FROM LITERATURE

  Ayesha Younas, Ambreen Ansar

  1211-13

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• COLLABORATIVE NETWORK OF NEONATAL SERVICES TO REDUCE NEONATAL MORTALITY AND IMPROVE OUTCOME: ARMY MEDICAL CORPS COULD LEAD THE WAY

  Khalid Haque, Talal Waqar

  1214-19

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Case Reports

• FANCONI ANEMIA PRESENTING LATE AS MALIGNANT BUCCAL CARCINOMA; A CASE REPORT

  Taimoor Ashraf Khan, Qamar Un Nisa Chaudhry, Shehryar Zameer, Abdur Rehman Arshad

  1220-21

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• THYROID STORM; A RARE BUT LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS

  Syeda Fatimah Zareen, Syed Waqar Abbas, Saleh Khurshied

  1222-23

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