Letters to the Editor

Dick DJ Saunders M . Persistent involuntary movements after treatment with flupenthixol. Br Med J 1988; 282: 1756

Manander MS Farag TI Hafez SA Al-Awadi SA Palkovic M Hunt MCH : Familial hypercholesterolaemia: is there a need for early detection and treatment? J Kuwait Med Assoc 1988; (In press)

WHO. Genetic disorders: prevention treatment and rehabilitation. Technical report series No 497. Geneva: WHO 1972.

Seftel HC Baker SG Sandler MP A host of hypercholesterolaemic homozygote in South Africa. Br Med J 1980; 281: 633–6

Al-Awadi SA Moussa MA Naguib KK Consanguinity among the Kuwaiti population. Clin Genet 1985; 27: 483–6

Hassanien MM . Bedouin sociology. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Okadh Publishing, 1984

Khachadurian AK Uthman SM . Experiences with the homozygous cases of familial hypercholestrolaemia. A report of 52 patients. Nutr Metab 1973; 15: 132

Rajatanavin R Braverman LE . Euthyroid hyperthyroxinemia. J Endocrinol Invest 1983; 6: 493–505

Borst GC Eil C Burman KD . Euthyroid hyperthyroxinemia. Ann Intern Med 1983; 98: 366–78

Stockigt JR Barlow JW . The diagnostic challenge of euthyroid hyperthyroxinemia. Aust NZ J Med 1985; 15: 277–84

Leading article. Euthyroid hyperthyroxinaemia. Lancet 1987; ii: 142

Rippere V . Biochemical victims: false negative diagnosis through overreliance on laboratory results — a personal report. Med Hypotheses 1983; 10: 113–30

Rippere V . Hypothalamic hypothyroidism with end-organ resistance — further personal observations. Med Hypotheses 1986; 21: 241–8

Ingbar JC Borges M Iflah S Kleinman RE Braverman LE Ingbar SH . Elevated serum thyroxine concentration in patients receiving “replacement” doses of levothyroxine. J Endocrinol Invest 1982; 5: 77–85

Pearce CJ Himsworth RL . Total and free thyroid hormone concentrations in patients receiving maintenance replacement treatment with thyroxine. Br Med J 1984; 288: 693–5

Fraser WD Biggart EM O'Reilly DStJ Gray HW McKillop JH Thomson JA . Are biochemical tests of thyroid function of any value in monitoring patients receiving thyroxine replacement? Br Med J 1986; 293: 808–10

Marks G Bloggs HW Castro AF Sigmoidoscope examinations with rigid and flexible fibre-optic sigmoidoscopes in the surgeon's office. Dis Colon Rectum 1979; 22: 162–8

Williams JT Thomson JPS . Ano-rectal bleeding: a study of causes and investigative yields. Practitioner 1977; 219: 327–31