MILITARY PHYSICIAN Military Physician
Program Council Members
Quarterly
Chairman Grzegorz Gielerak – Head of the Military Institute of Medicine
Official Organ of the Section of Military Physicians of the Polish Medical Society Oficjalny Organ Sekcji Lekarzy Wojskowych Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego Scientific Journal of the Military Institute of Medicine Pismo Naukowe Wojskowego Instytutu Medycznego Published since 3 January 1920 Number of points assigned by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) – 4
Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Jerzy Kruszewski MD, PhD
Members Massimo Barozzi (Italy) Nihad El-Ghoul (Palestine) Claudia E. Frey (Germany) Anna Hauska-Jung (Poland) Wiesław W. Jędrzejczak (Poland) Dariusz Jurkiewicz (Poland) Paweł Kaliński (USA) Frederick C. Lough (USA) Marc Morillon (Belgium) Arnon Nagler (Israel) Stanisław Niemczyk (Poland) Krzysztof Paśnik (Poland) Francis J. Ring (UK) Tomasz Rozmysłowicz (USA) Daniel Schneditz (Austria) Zofia Wańkowicz (Poland) Piotr Zaborowski (Poland)
Deputy Editors-in-Chief Krzysztof Korzeniewski, Marek Maruszyński, Piotr Rapiejko Secretary Ewa Jędrzejczak Editorial Office Military Institute of Medicine 128 Szaserów St., 04-141 Warsaw 44 telephone/fax: +48 261 817 380 e-mail: lekarzwojskowy@wim.mil.pl www.lekarzwojskowy.pl © Copyright by Military Institute of Medicine Practical Medicine Publishing House / Medycyna Praktyczna 2 Rejtana St. 30-510 Kraków telephone: +48 12 29 34 020, fax: +48 12 29 34 030 e-mail: listy@mp.pl Managing Editor Lidia Miczyńska Proofreading Dariusz Rywczak, Iwona Żurek Cover Design Krzysztof Gontarski Typesetting Łukasz Łukasiewicz DTP Katarzyna Opiela Advertising Piotr Lorens MD telephone +48 663 430 191; e-mail: piotr.lorens@mp.pl Print TECHNET, Kraków Circulation: 700 copies Price PLN 14
For many years, “Military Physician” has been indexed in the Polish Medical Bibliography (Polska Bibliografia Lekarska), the oldest Polish bibliographic database. The original version of "Military Physician" is the electronic version (www.lekarzwojskowy.pl). The journal is financed by the Military Medical Chamber
ISSN 0024-0745
Tanslation, proofreading and DTP of the English version by Skrivanek Sp. z o.o.