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Giant peritoneal loose bodies are rare lesions, originating from auto-amputated appendices epiploicae. They may cause urinary or gastrointestinal obstruction and, should the radiologist not be familiar with the entity, ...

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I recently attended a two-day course entitled ‘Postgraduate supervision in Health Sciences’ and was intrigued by the considerable number of clinical staff who were involved in demanding doctoral degree research, supervising ...

Clinicians and epidemiologists at McMaster University in Canada coined the term ‘evidence-based medicine’ in 1988.[1] The Scottish physician Dr Archibald Leman Cochrane (1909 - 1988) was a pioneer of evidence-based medicine; ...

Thank you to those members of the RSSA who participated in the recent April 2013 RSSA/SAJR poll conducted to obtain a formal record indicating their preferences when accessing journal content. Of the 213 responses, 55% ...

In their recent article, Apffelstaedt et al.[1] analysed 16 105 mammograms performed at Tygerberg Hospital (TBH), Cape Town, South Africa (SA), between 2003 and 2012. The summary reported that ‘mammograms were read by ...