Eastern Journal of Medicine

EJM
Contents Volume 8, Number 2, Year 2003

ORIGINAL PAPERS

22. Hypertension: a social impact disease

Aree Kantachuvessiri

27. The comparative effects of pentoxifylline and ursodeoxycholic acid on IL-1 , IL-6, IL-8, and TNF- levels in nonalcoholic fatty liver

İlyas Tuncer, İsmail Uygan, Haluk Dülger, Kürşat Türkdoğan, Ramazan Şekeroğlu

33. Serum zinc levels amongst tribal population in a district of Jharkhand state, India: a pilot study
Umesh Kapil, Preeti Singh, Priyali Pathak

35. Hypoglycemic and hepatoprotective effects of foeniculum vulgare miller seed fixed oil extract in mice

Hanefi Özbek, Mustafa Öztürk, İrfan Bayram, Serdar Uğraş, Gülçin Saltan Çitoğlu

CASE REPORTS

41. A rare cause of intestinal obstruction: ileosigmoid knot

Nazım Ağaoğlu

43. Breast hamartoma: Radiologic appearances

Mustafa Harman, Özkan Ünal, Serdar Uğraş, Ömer Etlik, Çetin Kotan

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

46. Assessment of copper status in pregnant women

M. Olga Loura, J. Carlos Tutor