title: Medical literature review: Search or perish.
abstract: Literature review is a cascading process of searching, reading, analyzing, and summing up of the materials about a specific topic. However, searching the literature is like searching "a needle in a haystack", and hence has been called "Cinderella".(1) Therefore, skills and effective pathways of searching the literature are needed to achieve high sensitive and specific results.
authors.affiliation: Younis Skaik, Lecturer and Researcher in Immunohaematology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, AL-Azhar University-Gaza, Palestine.
authors.forename: Younis
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Skaik
keywords: Literature search