Mahmud Ahmad Akhtar.
Hepatology in Pakistan Armed Forces: The Past.
J Rawal Med Coll Jan ;6(1):43-4.

Gastroenterology and hepatology was not only being practiced in the Armed Forces institutions but the specialty was also being advanced by academic and research work. In the Armed Forces at the Central Military Path Labs (now AFIP) a lot of post mortem material of the fatal hepatitis cases was examined and histopathology done. Records of the postmortem material are available. This was not being done anywhere else in Pakistan. In 1959, I wrote my dissertation on Viral Hepatitis and Peptic Ulcer for the grading examination of the Medical specialty. This entailed clinical and biochemical studies of viral hepatitis patients and clinical and radiological studies of the peptic ulcer patients. The dissertation on viral hepatitis was published in the Armed Forces Medical College Journal in 1960. This is a special communication.

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