Publications by authors named "A O Takure"
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- * A study of 73 prostate cancer patients treated with HDRB at University College Hospital, Nigeria, found that the median age of patients was 66, with many diagnosed through routine PSA screening; common symptoms included frequent urination and urgency.
- * The research indicated significant relationships between factors like age, education level, and PSA screening with disease stage and risk group, highlighting the socio-demographic influences on prostate cancer presentations.
Introduction: Soft tissue masses are commonly encountered in surgical and general medical practice. The graduating medical student should therefore be competent in the physical examination of a lump. Paucity of real patients makes it paramount that models be used for teaching and evaluation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOutcome and surgical management of symptomatic renal angiomyolipoma in Ibadan, Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa.
Niger J Clin Pract
October 2022
Background: Renal angiomyolipoma is the commonest benign solid kidney neoplasm though rare in clinical practice. The advent of radiological imaging techniques, refinement in surgical approach and techniques and availability of mammalian target of rapamycin have improved the outcome in these cohort of patients.
Aim: To report our experience with the surgical management of renal angiomyolipoma in the sub-Saharan Africa.
Background: Prostatic diseases cause significant morbidity and mortality in African men. Most Nigerian patients presenting with huge prostate enlargement are availed open prostatectomy to relieve symptoms of prostatism. Some prostates removed for benign enlargement have indolent cancers that are only discovered after histopathological examination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: There is a paucity of information on bone scanning for prostate cancer from low-resource countries. This study evaluated the role of bone scan in the primary staging of newly diagnosed prostate cancer in one such setting.
Methods: A retrospective analysis of 126 men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer undergoing an initial staging bone scan between January 2017 and December 2020 was carried out at a regional nuclear medicine center in Nigeria.