The Nigerian postgraduate medical journal
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Niger Postgrad Med J · Jun 2012
Gastric precancerous lesions among Nigerians with chronic gastritis.
To investigate the frequency of precancerous lesions in H. pylori gastritis in Nigerians ⋯ Frequency of precancerous lesions is low among Nigerians with H.pylori gastritis. Intestinal metaplasia was the commonest lesion and was mostly type I with relatively low risk for gastric cancer development. The relatively high prevalence H.pylori infection among these cases could have resulted from repeated infection and most were localised to the corpus relative to the antral region where the precancerous lesions were seen.
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Niger Postgrad Med J · Jun 2012
Drowning in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria: an autopsy study of 85 cases.
To study the frequency distribution of gender, age, cause and circumstances of drowning in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, using autopsy. ⋯ Death from drowning is a common but preventable public health problem in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, since most of the victims drowned accidentally mainly due to lifestyle and psychosocial problem.