RIMeL - IJLaM, Vol. 5, N. 4, 2009 (MAF Servizi srl ed.)

Editorial

• 247 - Atul Gawande and the case McAllen, Texas

Press Review

• 253 - Recommendations for the management, the eva-luation and the use of glucometers in the extra-hospital setting
• 264 - Laboratory medicine and thyroid carcinomas
• 277 - Carbohydrate-Deficient Transferrin (CDT). Guidelines for analysis and interpretation

Articles

• 290 - Proteomic analysis in hyperevaporative dry eye patients
• 298 - Pre-natal screening of chromosomal defects.Updated results of a study carried out at the RomeHealth District from Jan 2003 to Jan 2008
• 304 - Elevated calcitonin and procalcitonin levels in non-medullary benign and malignant thyroid nodules

Clinical Case

• 308 - Laboratory parameters in three cases of carbon monoxide poisoning

Fragments of Medicine History

• 311 - Surgical anaesthesia using sulphuric ether. Experiments in Vicenza, town of the Lombardo-Veneto kingdom