Leadership in medicine
S.K. Jindal .. 69
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis: new diagnostics and new policies
Madhukar Pai and Ruvandhi Nathavitharana .. 71
Assessment of control of bronchial asthma in children using Childhood Asthma Control Test
S.P. Chalise, Nisha K. Bhatta, Rupa R. Singh, Maya Shankar Prasad and P. Poudel .. 75
Indoor air pollution and respiratory illness in children from rural India: a pilot study
R. Kumar, N. Goel, N. Gupta, K. Singh, S. Nagar and Juhi Mittal .. 79
Central venous catheter related bloodstream infections in medical intensive care unit patients
in a tertiary referral centre
Deepti, S. Sinha, S.K. Sharma, P. Aggarwal, A. Biswas, Seema Sood, Ragunandan P, Meera Ekka,
Immaculata Xess and V. Sreenivas .. 85
Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: causes and impacts
S.K. Chhabra and Devi Jyoti Dash .. 93
Bronchiectasis in a Marfanoid: diagnosis beyond Marfans
Unnati Desai, S. Kalamkar and J.M. Joshi .. 105
A rare case of ulcerative colitis with diffuse parenchymal lung disease, spontaneous
pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema
D.C. Gupta, R.K. Jenaw, S. Koolwal and N. Khippal .. 109
Primary spontaneous haemopneumothorax: an overlooked emergency
Y Aljehani, Fahd Makhdom, Hessa Albuainain and Y. El-Ghoniemy .. 113
Chilaiditi’s syndrome
Rajender M, Vinay Kumar A, Renuka Rao, Raghukanth A and Shruthi Reddy A .. 117
Agenesis of right diaphragm in the adults: a diagnostic dilemma
S.A. Ali, M.A. Haseen and M.H. Beg .. 121
Testicular embryonal cell carcinoma presenting as haemoptysis and skin nodules
V.K. Yadav, P. Pokharna, N.Sharma, A. Tiwari, S. Devgaraha and R.M. Mathur .. 125
Pulmonary hamartoma .. 129
Abstracts´ Service .. 130
Dr Gauri Bajaj-Malik .. 134
Guidelines to Authors .. 135
Announcements .. 66, 108, 112, 124