The relationship between income and performance indicators in general practice: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: To explore the relationship between the income of general practitioners (GPs) and the performance characteristics of their practices.

Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Setting: All practices (n = 166) in an inner city health authority, two years before the introduction of the new GP contract in April 2004 were studied.

[A 2500 year-old patient. Nosological study of a statue of the Nok culture, Nigeria].

The authors describe a terra cotta statue of the Nok culture (Nigeria) dating from between 450 and 50 B. C. Amongst thousands of the same origin, this statue is the only one representing a pathological state of cirrhosis, aetiology of which may be viral, parasitological or iatrogenic.

[The gastroduodenal artery and its variations. Study of 100 arteriographies].

The gastro-duodenal artery, whose study has been based on a series of one hundred digestive arteriographies, is visualized in all cases. Its variations of origine are directly connected to the different possible dispositions of the hepatic arterial supply. The analysis of the results confirms the literary data: each time there is a middle hepatic artery, it gives the gastro-duodenal artery.