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Granulocytic sarcoma: report of three cases.
(1999-10)
Granulocytic sarcoma (GS) is a rare extramedullary solid tumour composed of malignant immature cells of the granulocytic series. It may herald, accompany or signal acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) or chronic granulocytic ...
Sonographic appearances and percutaneous management of primary tuberculous liver abscess
(1999)
Primary tuberculous liver abscesses are rare. We report on 3 patients who presented with a nonresolving abscess in the liver. Clinical presentation and sonographic findings in each case were nonspecific. A diagnosis of ...
Presentation And Management Of Chronic Osteomyelitis In An African Patient With Pycnodysostosis
(University of Nairobi, 1999)
A case is reported of pycnodysostosis (PCD) with chronic osteomyelitis in the mandible. The clinical and radiological features and the problems of management and follow-up are discussed.
Effect of percutaneous balloon mitral valvotomy on pulmonary venous flow in severe mitral stenosis.
(University of Nairobi,, 1999)
OBJECTIVE:
To study the effect of percutaneous balloon mitral valvotomy (PBMV) on the deranged systolic and diastolic pulmonary venous flows in mitral stenosis.
DESIGN:
Open, non-randomised, case-control study.
SETTING:
Mater ...
Pulmonary venous flow pattern in various grades of mitral regurgitation and the effect of mitral surgery on flows in severe regurgitation
(University of Nairobi,, 1999)
OBJECTIVE:
Firstly, to describe pulmonary venous flow patterns in various grades of mitral regurgitation and secondly, to determine effect of mitral valve surgery on these flows.
DESIGN:
Descriptive study for the first ...
Percutaneous balloon mitral valvotomy: initial experience in Nairobi using a new multi-track catheter system.
(University of Nairobi,, 1999)
OBJECTIVE:
To determine efficacy and safety of the new multi-track catheter system for percutaneous baloon mitral valvotomy.
DESIGN:
Open, non-randomised intervention.
SETTING:
Cardiac catheterisation Laboratories of ...
Abortion: knowledge and perceptions of adolescents in two districts in Kenya
(1999)
BACKGROUND: Pregnancy among adolescents is unplanned in many instances. Although some pregnant adolescents carry the pregnancy to term, abortion, in many instances unsafely induced, is a commonly sought solution in ...
Abortion: behaviour of adolescents in two districts in Kenya
(1999)
BACKGROUND:
In Kenya the reported high rates of unwanted pregnancies (more than 90%), among adolescents have subsequently resulted in unsafely induced abortions with the associated high morbidity and mortality ...
Declining syphilis prevalence in pregnant women in Nairobi since 1995: another success story in the STD field?
(1999)
Untreated maternal syphilis during pregnancy will cause adverse pregnancy outcomes in more than 60% of the infected women. In Nairobi, Kenya, the prevalence of syphilis in pregnant women of 2.9% in 1989, showed a rise to ...
An immunohistochemical study of keratin expression in ameloblastoma from a Kenyan population.
(1999)
OBJECTIVES:
Ameloblastomas appear to exhibit biological heterogeneity and, except in the case of malignancy, histological appearances that do not always allow their behaviour to be predicted. The aim of this study was to ...