Table of Contents

Combining Clinical and Thallium Data Optimizes Preoperative Assessment of Cardiac Risk before Major Vascular Surgery

• Kim A. Eagle,
• Christopher M. Coley,
• John B. Newell,
• David C. Brewster,
• R. Clement Darling,
• H. William Strauss,
• Timothy E. Guiney,
• and Charles A. Boucher

Adiposity, Fat Distribution, and Cardiovascular Risk

• Alan N. Peiris,
• Mark S. Sothmann,
• Raymond G. Hoffmann,
• Magda I. Hennes,
• Charles R. Wilson,
• Anthony B. Gustafson,
• and Ahmed H. Kissebah

Intestinal Decontamination for Control of Nosocomial Multiresistant Gram-Negative Bacilli: Study of an Outbreak in an Intensive Care Unit

• Christian Brun-Buisson,
• Patrick Legrand,
• Alain Rauss,
• Claude Richard,
• Françoise Montravers,
• Mohamed Besbes,
• Jonathan L. Meakins,
• Claude J. Soussy,
• and François Lemaire

Development of Clinically Recognizable Genital Lesions among Women Previously Identified as Having "Asymptomatic" Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Infection

• Andria Langenberg,
• Jacqueline Benedetti,
• Jennifer Jenkins,
• Rhoda Ashley,
• Carol Winter,
• and Lawrence Corey

Infection Caused by Francisella philomiragia (Formerly Yersinia philomiragia): A Newly Recognized Human Pathogen

• Jay D. Wenger,
• Dannie G. Hollis,
• Robert E. Weaver,
• Carolyn N. Baker,
• Geri R. Brown,
• Don J. Brenner,
• and Claire V. Broome

Serum Hepatitis B Viral DNA in Acute Viral Hepatitis B

• Tse-Ling Fong,
• Evangelos A. Akriviadis,
• Sugantha Govindarajan,
• Boontar Valinluck,
• and Allan G. Redeker

Clinical Effect of Glucocorticoids on Kaposi Sarcoma Related to the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

• Parkash S. Gill,
• Carmen Loureiro,
• Marjorie Bernstein-Singer,
• Mark U. Rarick,
• Fred Sattler,
• and Alexandra M. Levine

The Box Plot: A Simple Visual Method to Interpret Data

• David F. Williamson,
• Robert A. Parker,
• and Juliette S. Kendrick

Diagnostic Reasoning

• Jerome P. Kassirer

National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower: XV. A Decade of Change in Residency Training in Internal Medicine

• Ronald M. Andersen,
• Christopher Lyttle,
• Claire Kohrman,
• Gerald Levey,
• and Catherine Glen

Selective Intestinal Decontamination-An Infection Control Measure Whose Time Has Come?

• Robert A. Weinstein

Hyperosmolar Coma: Cellular Dehydration and the Serum Sodium Concentration

• John T. Daugirdas,
• Nouhad O. Kronfol,
• Antonios H. Tzamaloukas,
• and Todd S. Ing

Hypertension in Elderly Patients

• William B. Applegate

Health Care Needs of the Adolescent

The Periodic Physical Examination in Asymptomatic Persons

• Roger M. Cass

The Geriatric Consultation Team

• Michael R. Wasserman

Colony-Stimulating Factor and Drug-Induced Agranulocytosis

• André Delannoy and
• Myriam Géhenot

Anaphylactic Shock and Vitamin K₁

• Javier de la Rubia,
• Enric Grau,
• Isabel Montserrat,
• Isabel Zuazu,
• and Antonio Payá

Flutamide and Hepatitis

• W. Hart and
• BH. Ch. Stricker

Lovastatin and Visual Changes

• Frank W. Newell

Isoniazid and Rhabdomyolysis

• Peter James Cronkright and
• Gregory Szymaniak

Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcal Bacteremia

• Peter Collignon

Seroreversions in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection

• L. Gürtler,
• J. Eberle,
• and F. Deinhardt

Splenic Abscess from Fusobacterium nucleatum

• Stuart W. Haber and
• Carl A. Perlino

Correction: Handbook of Clinical Drug Data

• James E. Knoben and
• Philip O. Anderson

Correction: Letter about the Periodic Physical Examination

• Paul E. Ogden

Correction: Title of Book Review

Computed Body Tomography With MRI Correlation

Common Perioperative Problems and the Anaesthetist

Care And Punishment: The Dilemmas of Prison Medicine

Pro-Cite for the Macintosh

Clinical Diagnosis

Medical Ethics and the Elderly: A Case Book

Socioeconomics of Surgery

Cardiac Arrhythmias: The Role of Triggered Activity and Other Mechanisms.