Letters to the Editor

Randall LD . Pharmacology of chlordiazepoxide (Librium). Dis Nervous System 1962; 22: 7–15

Hollister LE Motzenbecker FP Degan RO . Withdrawal reactions from chlordiazepoxide (Librium). Psychopharmacologia 1961; 2: 63–8

Gordon EB . Addiction to diazepam (Valium). BMJ 1967; i: 112

Preskorn SH Dernier LJ . Benzodiazepines and withdrawal psychosis: report of three cases. JAMA 1977; 237: 36–8

Marks J . The benzodiazepines: use, overuse, misuse and abuse. Lancaster: MTP Press, 1978

Benzodiazepine dependence, toxicity and abuse. A Task Force Report of the APA, Washington DC: APA, 1990

Manson JD . Passive eruption. Dental Practitioner 1963; 14: 2

Kozlowski JM Beal JM . Obturator hernia: an elusive diagnosis. Arch Surg 1977; 112: 1001–22

Hannington-Kiff JG . Absent thigh adductor reflex in obturator hernia. Lancet 1980; i: 180

O'Reilly SM Richards MA Rubens RD . Liver metastases from breast cancer: the relationship between clinical, biochemical and pathological features and survival. Eur J Cancer 1990; 26: 574–7

O'Reilly SM Coleman RE Rubens RD . Phase II study of mitoxantrone for liver metastases from breast cancer. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 1989; 25: 73–4

Twelves CJ O'Reilly SM Coleman RE Richards MA Rubens RD . Weekly epirubicin for breast cancer with liver metastases and abnormal liver biochemistry. Br J Cancer 1989; 60: 938–41

Twelves CJ Richards MA Smith P Rubens RD . Epirubicin in breast cancer patients with liver metastases and abnormal liver biochemistry: Initial weekly treatment followed by rescheduling and intensification. Ann Oncol 1991; 2: 663–6

Twelves CJ Dobbs NA Gregory WM Summers LA Rubens RD Richards MA . A dosage nomogram for epirubicin based on liver biochemistry tests. Br J Cancer 1991; 63 (suppl. XIII): 54

Ricci MA Trevisani MF Beck WC . Acute appendicitis. A five year review. Am Surg 1991; 57: 301–5

Maxwell JM Ragland JJ . Appendicitis. Improvements in diagnosis and treatment. Am Surg 1991; 57: 282–5

Alvarado A . A practical score for the early diagnosis of acute appendicitis. Ann Emerg Med 1986; 15: 557–64

Teicher I Landa B Cohen M Kabnick LS Wise L . Scoring system to aid diagnoses of appendicitis. Ann Surg 1983; 193: 753–9

Fenyo G . Acute abdominal diseases in the elderly. Am J Surg 1982; 143: 751–4

Hoffmann J Rasmussen OO . Aid in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. Br J Surg 1989; 76: 774–79

Liddington MI Thomson WHF . Rebound tenderness test. Br J Surg 1991; 78: 795–6

Paton WDM Zaimis E J . Clinical potentialities of certain bisquaternary salts causing neuromuscular and ganglionic block. Nature 1948; 162: 81(T

Boura ALA Green AF . The actions of bretylium; adrenergic neurone blocking and other effects. Br J Pharmacol Chemother 1959; 14: 536–548

Boura ALA Green AF McCoubrey A Laurence DR Moulton R Rosenheim ML . Darenthin. Hypotensive agent of new type. Lancet 1959; ii: 17–21

Parnham MJ Bruinvels J , eds. Discoveries in pharmacology, vol. 2. Haemodynamics, hormones and inflammation. Oxford: Elsevier, 1948

Guidance for Doctors on Professional Confidence, General Medical Council, November 1991

Schutte PK . Medical confidentiality and a police murder inquiry. J Med Def Union, 1989; 5: 21

O'Donovan C . Confidentiality. The Medical Defence Union Ltd, 1992

Dukes CE . Familial intestinal polyposis. Ann R Coll Surg 1952; 10: 293–304

Channer JL Davies JD . Smooth muscle proliferation in the hilum of superficial lymph nodes. Virchows Arch [A] 1985; 406: 261–70