dc.contributor.author | Muriithi, Charles M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-23T09:04:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-23T09:04:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Master Of Medicine in Ent Surgery Of The University Of Nairobi | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/11295/24739 | |
dc.description.abstract | This is a retrospective study of 74 cases of Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis (RRP)
treated at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) over a ten-year period (1990-1999). The
peak age group at presentation was 2-3 years with a range from 4 months to 34 years.
There was a slight male predominance at 54.1 %.
Most of the patients came from Central (29.7%) and Nyanza (28.4%) provinces. The
commonest presenting symptoms were hoarseness, stridor and dysnoea. The glottis was
the commonest site involved (95.8%). Extra laryngeal site involvement was found in
13.5% of cases.
All cases were managed by direct laryngoscopic removal of papillomas with micro
forceps. 50% of cases required more than one excision to control their recurrences.
Tracheostomy was done on 20.3% of patients out of whom 53% were later successfully
decannulated.
8.1% of patients developed complications, which was mainly laryngeal stenosis. There
was no mortality recorded during the period under review. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.title | Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis (RRP) treated at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) over a ten-year period (1990-1999) | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
dc.description.department | a
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, ; bDepartment of Mental Health, School of Medicine,
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya | |
local.publisher | Faculty of Medicine | en |