ABSTRACT Renal blood flow evaluation during malaria illness is rarely done despite the high incidence of kidney injury from malaria and availability of Doppler Ultrasound in malaria endemic areas.
ABSTRACT Ultrasonographic measurement of abdominal organ dimensions in children of all ages is utilized in the monitoring of abdominal organ growth pattern, diagnosis and follow-up of patients with a variety of diseases. Base line reference values are necessary to determine abdominal organ growth and the degree of deviation from the normal in pathological states.
ABSTRACT Over the years, there has been a significant rise in the number of graduates from medical schools in subSaharan Africa. A recent study of 105 selected medical schools found an increase from about 8,000 graduates in 2008 to >18,000 in 2011 .
ABSTRACT Background: Radiological imaging is mandatory, when investigating patients with low back pain (LBP). A minimum of three plain radiographic views of lumbosacral spine are routinely requested for by the attending clinicians. Objective: This study is therefore carried out to determine if only one view will be sufficient in the initial screening of patients with low back pain. Materials and Methods: The antero-posterior (AP) and lateral plain radiographs of patients referred to the rad...
ABSTRACT Dermatofibroma also benign fibrous histiocytoma (BFH) or sclerosing haemanginoma is a rare benign neoplastic tumour of the skin which usually occurs in young adults. There is no sex predeliction.
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to determine ifthe intensity and nature of pain during Hystero-Salphingography could give a clue to the presence of abnormal finding/so Eighty-two patients were recruited over a six-month period. Procedural pain was assessed using the numeric rating scale. Mean age was 33.2 ± 4.9 years. The median pain score in patients with normal findings was 6.0 but7.0, 8.0. and 8.5 in those with right tubal blockade, uterine fibroids and left tubal blockade respectively....
ABSTRACT Protein energy malnutrition (PEM) is an important public health problem in the developing countries, although it is becoming uncommon in South West Nigeria. Cerebral changes have been associated with severe PEM. This study evaluated the neurological changes using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in Ibadan south west Nigeria. The 5 children evaluated had a median age of 16 months and all the children had brain Changes compatible with cerebral atrophy. In addition two of the children h...
ABSTRACT The metacarpal index (MI) is used in screening for patients with arachnodactyly especially Marfan 's syndrome. It is a radiographic measure 0/ -the slenderness of the 2nd -5' metacarpals, which was measured in a total of 608 Nigerians of which 55 (9%) were children and 553 (91%) were adults. The study shows that (he MJ increases steadily in children approaching the adult value at about the age of 9 years In females and 13 years in males coinciding with menarche and puberty respective...
ABSTRACT Hydrauencephaly, a relatively rare malformation of the brain, is characterised by absence of the cerebral hemispheres and their replacement by sacs filled with cerebrospinal fluid. It is one of the recognised forms of intracranial malformations associated with intrauterine few one of twins in monochorionic twin gestation. This report illustrates the development of hydranencephaly in a surviving twin sequel to intrauterine fetal demise of the co-twin.
ABSTRACT This is a case of an occult follicular thyroid carcinoma in a 61 year old civil servant presenting with bony metastasis to the left iliac bone twenty years after an initial subtotal thyroidectomy. There was a soft tissue mass with associated cup shaped lytic detruction of the iliac bone and on ultrasound scan the mass was found to be of mixed echogenicity and areas of sonolucencies which were due to necroses. At autopsy, the thyroid gland appeared macroscopically within normal limits...
Abstract Supernumerary kidney is a rare congenital anomaly of the urinary system with less than 100 cases documented in literatures worldwide'>'. Very rarely documented is the fused supernumerary kidney and horseshoe component with unknown incidence, due to the rarity of this complex anomaly. We hereby present a rare case of complex renal anomalies of fused supernumerary kidneys with horseshoe component misdiagnosed as an abdominal tumour on ultrasound, incidentally discovered at Computed To...
ABSTRACT Background: A breast cancer diagnosis as well as the treatment that follows has considerable consequences on women’s physical functioning, psychological health and overall well-being, resulting in significant interference with patients’ quality of life (QoL). Purpose: The study seeks to assess the impact of active coping, religion and acceptance on the QoL of patients with breast cancer. Participants This study, which is descriptive in nature, assessed the QoL and coping mechan...
ABSTRACT A 34 year-old hypertensive para 2 + 0 (I alive) woman. was found to have right suprarenal mass during routine ante-natal investigation. The suprarenal mass. which was initially diagnosed as phaeochromocytorna was excised and was found .at histology to be myelolipoma! The radiological investigations and appearances (compared with phaeochromocytoma where necessary) have been discussed. The complications. differential diagnoses and treatment were also mentioned.
Background: Radiation protection in paediatric radiology requires special attention than in adult because children are mare sensitive to radiation and at higher risk. This risk is explained by the longer life expectancy in children which allows for harmful effects of radiation to manifest and their developing organs and tissues being more sensitive to radiation. Hence, the need for determination of appropriate radiation dose for paediatric patients. Aims: To estimate entrance skin dose (ESD)...
Children younger than 14 years account for 44% of the Nigerian population of mole than 170 million people. There are fewer than 500 board certified general radiologists to provide quality imaging services to the 75 million children making the radiologic contrbution to their care suboptimal.