dc.contributor.author | Kivindu, Charles M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-24T08:52:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-24T08:52:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1978-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Master of medicine ,University of Nairobi,1978. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/11295/25265 | |
dc.description.abstract | Literature on Hodgkins disease is briefly reviewed under the following headings:
(a)Aetiology (b) Clinical presentation and staging (c)Histipathological diagnosis and classification (d)Treatment (e)Relapse survival and cure (f)Immunology.
Records of 49 adult (>15 years) patients diagnosed and treated in Kenyatta national hospital between January 1973 and December 1977 were analyzed. The mean age was 31 years and the male-female ratio was 3:1. All the patients had lymphadenopathy as a main presenting feature, and 94.5% complained of fever at the time of presentation. The mean duration of illness before presentation was 11 months. 70% of the patients were clinically in stage III and IV at the time of presentation. Histological classification showed a predominance of the more malignant mixed cellulantly (37%) and lymphocyte (23%).
Multiple drug chemotherapy achieved a complete remission rate of 76% while the complete remission rate in the group treated with radiotherapy was 71%. Side effects in both groups were minimal. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.title | A five years (1973 - 1977) retrospective study and a two years experience in the treatment of adult (over 15 years) Hodgkins disease in Kenyatta National Hospital | 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 | Medicine | en |