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Combined gastric and duodenal ulcers managed by vagotomy and drainage
(University of Nairobi, 1971-04-10)
Sixteen patients with combined gastric and duodenal ulcers have been treated by vagotomy with drainage. In all sixteen there was radiological evidence of healing of the gastric ulcer at 1 year after the operation. When ...
New and old agents in diarrhea; a prospective study of an indigenous adult African population.
(University of Nairobi, 1978)
In Nairobi, Kenya, 77 adults with acute diarrhoea were studied in an attempt to determine the major pathogens responsible. Amoebic dysentery was not seen although haemagglutination-inhibition tests for invasive Entamoeba ...
The prevalence and clinical presentation of psychiatric illness in a rural setting in Kenya.
(1979-09)
One hundred and forty patients seen in a suburban walk-in walk-out clinic over a period of 30 days were studied. Twenty-eight (20 per cent) of them were found to be primarily psychiatrically disabled, 83 (59.3 per cent) ...
Primary splenic pregnancy. Case report.
(1977)
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Ectopic pregnancy in the upper abdominal organs is very rare but has been known to occur in the liver, spleen and lesser sac. Primary splenic pregnancy is considered the rarest form of extrauterine pregnancy, with ...
Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Kenya: Montenegro skin test in leishmaniasis foci and presumably leishmania-free areas
(University of Nairobi, 1975)
Trials of the Montenegro skin test were made in 7 areas of Kenya in which cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania tropica and transmitted by Phlebotomus pedifer Lewis, Mutinga & Ashford or kala azar caused by L. ...
Secondary Level Teachers: Supply and Demand in Kenya.
(1971)
This study is one of a series of 15 which comprises a comprehensive report on the supply of secondary level teachers in English-speaking Africa. Each is focused on the problem of determining the likely demand for overseas ...
Effects of progesterone on changes in arterial pressure following operation
(University of Nairobi, 1971-08-01)
In animals pretreated with progesterone, operation causes a marked rise in arterial pressure beginning about two hours after the start of the operation. No such rise occurs in animals not treated with progesterone. The ...