African health sciences
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African health sciences · Jun 2011
Causes of injuries resulting in a visit to the emergency department of a Provincial General Hospital, Nyanza, western Kenya.
There is increasing importance of trauma not only as a major cause of surgical admissions, but also a significant cause of morbidity, mortality and disability. ⋯ This study provides considerable information on major causes of injuries, useful for epidemiological surveillance and injury prevention campaigns.
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African health sciences · Jun 2011
Factors affecting quality of life in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Cancer can produce many different symptoms, some subtle and some not at all subtle. An increasingly important issue in oncology is to evaluate quality of life (QoL) in cancer patients. The cancer-specific QoL is related to all stages of this disease. ⋯ Cancer is an important health issue influencing QoL. An appropriate treatment which may provide care to the cancer patients is CT. A CT cycle may improve QoL in patients with solid tumors.
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African health sciences · Jun 2011
Uterine Leiomyomata in South Western Nigeria: a clinical study of presentations and management outcome.
Uterine leiomyoma is remarkably common, however only a subset of women have their fibroids clinically detected, symptomatic, or warrant surgical treatment. Its removal is commonly associated with complications. To prevent or control the occurrence of this complication requires the understanding of the factors associated with the complications. ⋯ Uterine fibroid is common in our environment and its removal is commonly associated with post-operative pyrexia, blood loss, and anaemia and wound infection. Midline incision, closure of rectus sheet with chromic catgut and myomectomy were associated with postoperative complications in this review.