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Original Articles
Breast self-examination practices and breast-cancer stage
R. S. Foster and Others
Abstract  

Estimated effect of breast self-examination and routine physician examinations on breast-cancer mortality
P. Greenwald and Others
Abstract  

Decreased activity of hepatic uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase in sporadic porphyria cutanea tarda
G. H. Elder, G. B. Lee, and J. A. Tovey
Abstract  

Scintigraphic detection of pulmonary emboli by serial positron imaging of inhaled 15O-labeled carbon dioxide
A. B. Nichols and Others
Abstract  

Prevention of the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome: a cost-benefit analysis
B. S. Centerwall and M. H. Criqui
Abstract  

Recurrent septicemia associated with congenital deficiency of C2 and partial deficiency of factor B and the alternative complement pathway
S. L. Newman, L. B. Vogler, R. D. Feigin, and R. B. Johnston
 

Porphyria cutanea tardia in two patients treated with hemodialysis for chronic renal failure
M. B. Poh-Fitzpatrick and Others
 


Review Articles
Law-medicine notes. Medical-examiner-system reorganization in Massachusetts
W. J. Curran
 


Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 31-1978
 

  Editorial
Breast self-examination
F. D. Moore
 

A new diagnostic test for pulmonary embolism: how good and how costly?
S. J. Adelstein and B. J. McNeil
 

Prevention that pays for itself
M. C. Weinstein
 


Correspondence
Vinca alkaloids and platelets
 

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura--a deficiency of plasma factors regulating platelet-vessel-wall interaction?
G. Remuzzi and Others
 

Tubular arrays on electron microscopy not specific
B. P. Croker, G. A. McCarty, and R. Snyderman
 

Poliomyelitis and arteriosclerosis in the etiology of Parkinson's disease
R. J. Marttila
 

Lactose filler as a cause of "drug-induced" diarrhea
J. Lieb and D. J. Kazienko
 

No relation between coffee and blood pressure
C. A. Bertrand and Others
 

Legal responsibilities of "independent" pediatric nurse practitioners
R. Kussman
 

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