Volume 77, Number 6: November-December 2009

Editorial
Overweight and obesity:
public health problems in Mexico
José Angel Córdova-Villalobos
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Characterization of serotonergic cells in fetal heart tissue
Gabriel Manjarrez-Gutiérrez, Nicolás Camacho-Calderón, Rosalío Mercado-Camargo, Alfonso Boyzo-Montes de Oca, Alberto Arvizu-Flores, and Jorge Hernández-Rodríguez
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Usefulness of second lymph node biopsy with a prior report of reactive lymphoid hyperplasia in pediatric patients
Norberto Sotelo-Cruz, Andrés Cordero-Olivares, Guillermo López-Cervantes, and Juan Alfonso Romero-Esquer
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Severe acute pancreatitis:
surgical management in a third-level hospital
Erick Servín-Torres, José Arturo Velázquez-García, Germán Delgadillo-Teyer, Luis Galindo-Mendoza, Francisco Bevia-Pérez, and Fausto Rivera-Bennet
[abstract] [PDF]

Management of bladder cancer with Studer orthotopic neobladder:
13-year experience
Andrés Martínez-Cornelio, Narciso Hernández-Toriz, Joel Quintero-Becerra, Donaciano Flores-López, Jorge Moreno-Palacios, and Emanuel Vázquez-Martínez
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Risk factors associated with histological alterations of the female genital tract in patients attending a first-level medical care facility
Marcelino Hernández-Valencia, Ociel Rodríguez-Lundes, María Esther Landero- Montes de Oca, Raúl Pichardo-García, and Gregorio Escamilla-Godínez
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Candida glabrata:
an emergent opportunist in vulvovaginitis
Rafael Buitrón-García-Figueroa, Javier Araiza-Santibáñez, Erich Basurto-Kuba, and Alexandro Bonifaz-Trujillo
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Stapled rectal mucosectomy alone and in combination with other surgical anorectal procedures:
multivariate analysis of factors affecting clinical outcome
José M. Correa-Rovelo, Oscar Téllez-Reynoso, Leoncio Obregón-Casanueva, Segundo Morán-Villota, Ximena Duque-López, and Sandra García-Osogobio
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Cranial vault reconstruction using computer-designed polyetheretherketone (PEEK) implant:
case report
Erika Chacón-Moya, José Francisco Gallegos-Hernández, Sandra Piña-Cabrales, Fabricio Cohn-Zurita, and Alberto Goné-Fernández
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Sinus of Valsalva aneurysm with rupture.
Case report and literature review
Matilde Myriam Galicia-Tornell, Bertha Marín-Solís, Oscar Mercado-Astorga, Saúl Espinoza-Anguiano, Manuel Martínez-Martínez, and Esteban Villalpando-Mendoza
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Chylothorax secondary to gunshot wound
Raúl Carrillo-Esper, Jesús Ojino Sosa-García, and Carlos Alberto Carrillo-Córdova
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Gastrointestinal bleeding and intussusception due to gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)
Pablo Menéndez-Sánchez, Pedro Villarejo-Campos, Daniel Gambí-Pisonero, Teófilo Cubo-Cintas, David Padilla-Valverde, and Jesús Martín-Fernández
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Fibrous hamartoma of infancy.
Case report
Leticia del Carmen Baena-Ocampo, Luis Miguel Linares-González and Norma Marín-Arriaga
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19 century cataract surgery and surgeons in Mexico
Jaime Lozano-Alcázar
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Mexican hospitals
Mauro Loyo-Varela and Horacio Díaz-Chazaro
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Letters to the Editor
Acad. Dr. Alejandro Reyes Fuentes
Acad. Dr. César Gutiérrez Samperio
Acad. Dr. Luis Mauricio Hurtado-López
Acad. Dr. Carlos Martínez-Duncker R.
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