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Evaluating patients with cirrhosis for hepatocellular carcinoma: value of clinical symptomatology, imaging and alpha-fetoprotein.Oncology
(2007)
OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to assess the value of clinical symptomatology, abdominal ultrasound (US), triple-phase CT (TPCT) and serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) estimation in predicting presence of hepatocellular ...
Prostate Cancer
(2007)
Objective: To carry out an overview of prostate cancer in indigenous back Africans in sub-Saharan Africa and blacks of African ancestry in diaspora. Data Source: Review of all published literature on prostate cancer on ...
Descriptive case series of patients presenting with cancer of the prostate and their management at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi
(2007-09)
Objective:
To study clinical prostate cancer in this locality with particular interest in incidence, clinical presentation and treatment.
Design:
A descriptive prospective study.
Setting
Kenyatta National Referral and ...
Health care seeking behaviour of tuberculosis patients in Obunga slums, Kisumu
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
This study was designed to investigate the health care seeking behaviour of TB patients
in Obunga slums in Kisumu district. Field work for the study was conducted in the health
care facilities located in Obunga slums and ...
The effects of foreign Aid on human development in Kenya
(2007-07)
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa depend heavily on foreign aid to finance their development efforts. In this paper an account of the effect of foreign aid on human development in Kenya is provided. Several analytical ...
Factors hindering paediatric ward nurses from using nursing care plans at Kenyatta National Hospital
(University of Nairobi,, 2007-08)
Factors Hindering Paediatric Ward Nurses from Using Nursing Care Plans at Kenyata
National Hospital (KNH)
BACKGROUND: Documentation is an essential and integral part of quality nursing care.
A nursing care plan best ...
Prevalence of benign, precancerous, and malignant lesions of the prostate in men aged twenty (20) years and above
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
Introduction: The main diseases of the prostate are prostatitis, benign prostatic
hypertrophy and prostate cancer. One in ten men will develop clinically significant
prostate cancer in their lifetime. Men who are diagnosed ...
The management of early prostate cancer: a review
(2007-09)
Objective:To carry out a review of the management of early (clinically localised) prostate cancer.
Data Source:
Review of all published literature on the management of early prostate cancer was carried out through medline ...
Overview of prostate cancer in indigenous black Africans and blacks of African ancestry in diaspora 1935-2007
(2007-09)
Objective:
To carry out an overview of prostate cancer in indigenous back Africans in sub-Saharan Africa and blacks of African ancestry in diaspora.
Data source:
Review of all published literature on prostate cancer on ...
Determinants of early complications of Adenotonsillectomy
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
Background: Adenotonsillectomy (ASTS) is the commonest surgical procedure undertaken in children by otolaryngologists the world over. This operation is associated with various complications the commonest of which include ...