Volume 76   Number 7   July 2013

EDITORIALS

• Promoting palliative care in patients with motor neuron disease in Taiwan
  Pei-Ning Wang
  J Chin Med Assoc 2013; 76: 361-362.     Full Text [PDF]
• C5 palsy after cervical spine decompression surgery
  Chih-Wen Yang, Jong-Ling Fuh
  J Chin Med Assoc 2013; 76: 363-364.     Full Text [PDF]

REVIEW ARTICLE

• The benefits of estrogen or selective estrogen receptor modulator on kidney and its related disease - chronic kidney disease - mineral and bone disorder: Osteoporosis
  Wen-Ling Lee, Ming-Huei Cheng, Der-Cherng Tarng, Wu-Chang Yang, Fa-Kung Lee, Peng-Hui Wang
  J Chin Med Assoc 2013; 76: 365-371.     Full Text [PDF]

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

• The additional value of live/real-time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography over two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography for assessing mitral regurgitation with eccentric jets
  Shen-Kou Tsai, Jeng Wei, Ming C. Hsiung, Ching-Huei Ou, Chung-Yi Chang, Yi-Cheng Chuang, Kuo-Chen Lee, Yi-Pen Chou
  J Chin Med Assoc 2013; 76: 372-377.     Full Text [PDF]
• Quantitative measures of functional outcomes and quality of life in patients with C5 palsy
  Po-Yao Chang, Rai-Chi Chan, Yun-An Tsai, Wen-Cheng Huang, Henrich Cheng, Jia-Chi Wang, Shih-Fong Huang
  J Chin Med Assoc 2013; 76: 378-384.     Full Text [PDF]
• Pulmonary sequestration - differences in diagnosis and treatment in a single institution
  Chih-Hung Lin, Cheng-Yen Chuang, Jiun-Yi Hsia, Ming-Ching Lee, Sen-Ei Shai, Shyh-Sheng Yang, Chung-Ping Hsu
  J Chin Med Assoc 2013; 76: 385-389.     Full Text [PDF]
• The utilization of hospice care among patients with motor neuron diseases: The experience in Taiwan from 2005 to 2010
  Shih-Chao Kang, Shinn-Jang Hwang, Pin-Yuan Wu, Ching-Piao Tsai
  J Chin Med Assoc 2013; 76: 390-394.     Full Text [PDF]
• Using modern teaching strategies to teach upper abdominal sonography to medical students
  Wei-Chun Cheng, Xi-Zhang Lin, Chiung-Yu Chen
  J Chin Med Assoc 2013; 76: 395-400.     Full Text [PDF]
• No enlargement of the right internal jugular vein of the dialysis patients in the Trendelenburg position
  Hsin-Lun Wu, Chien-Kun Ting, Chih-Yang Chen, Hung-Wei Cheng, Kwok-Hon Chan, Wen-Kuei Chang, Pin-Tarng Chen
  J Chin Med Assoc 2013; 76: 401-406.     Full Text [PDF]

CASE REPORTS

• Double coronary artery thrombosis presenting as acute extensive anterior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
  Ching-Wei Lee, Chih-Hong Lai, Tse-Min Lu
  J Chin Med Assoc 2013; 76: 407-410.     Full Text [PDF]
• Unusual giant intraspinal teratoma in an infant
  Yueh-Hsun Lu, Hseuh-Han Wang, Jiing-Feng Lirng, Wan-Yuo Guo, Tai-Tong Wong, Michael Mu-Huo Teng, Feng-Chi Chang, Cheng-Yen Chang
  J Chin Med Assoc 2013; 76: 411-414.     Full Text [PDF]