JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2002, VOLUME 19, No 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

world medical news
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editorials

Diabetic nephropathy 2002. Which is the best antihypertensive treatment?
G.S. Stergiou, T.D. Mountokalakis
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Type 2 diabetes treatment. The need of a new approach
E. Mygdalis
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guidelines

Guidelines for a diagnostic and therapeutic approach of the thyroid nodule
L.H. Duntas, A. Tsatsoulis, K. Karaiskos, K. Markou
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reviews

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and hemolytic uremic syndrome
�.I. Anagnostopoulos, A. Tsakri
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Models related to decision making processes regarding cadaver organ donation
T. Bellali, D. Papadatou
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brief review

�he interwoven intracellular signalling pathway of insulin
and its role in the polycystic ovary syndrome
E. Diamanti-Kandarakis, G. Antonogeorgos
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original papers

Clinically occult breast lesions. A histopathologic study
C.D. Scopa, A. Batistatou, P. Peristeropoulou, S.K. Kakkos, D. Koukouras, E. Tzoracoleftherakis
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Phenotypic analysis of natural killer (NK) cells in women with recurrent spontaneous abortions of immune etiology
E. Ntrivalas, G. Paterakis, C. Papasaranti, E. Mantouvalou, H. Mantouvalos, C. Stavropoulos-Giokas
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Comparison of levels of angiotensin II and its converting enzyme (ACE)
in athletically trained and untrained male and female subjects
E. Kallistratos
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history of medicine

The foundation of the Chair of Hygiene at Athens University, Medical School.
The first professors (1837�1900)
J. Laskaratos
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