Study of natural causes of death in medicolegal autopsies seen in University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

Aims And Objectives: To provide a comprehensive report on the various causes of natural death in our centre and consider its implication for prevention.

Materials And Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study of post mortem reports, autopsy registers and duplicate copies of death certificates of all cases of SND on which autopsy was performed on in UBTH, Benin City, between 1990 and 2009.

Results: Of the 4481 medicolegal deaths autopsied during the period, 2734 (61.

Histopathological profile of breast cancer in an African population.

Background: Currently breast cancer (BRCA) still remain the most commonly diagnosed female cancer globally with a significant geographic, racial and ethnical variations in its incidence.

Aim: This article examines the frequency and histological types and grades of BRCA in a pioneer teaching Hospital in Delta State, Nigeria.

Materials And Methods: H and E stained-slides of breast biopsies diagnosed at the Central Hospital, Warri from 2005 to 2011 were archived and studied.

An audit of paediatric mortality patterns in a Nigerian teaching hospital.

Background: The 4(th) millennium development goals (2002) reported that sub-Saharan Africa countries including Nigeria have a persistently high childhood mortality rates in-spite of all the preventive and interventional measures to reduce this ugly trend.

Patients And Methods: Childhood mortality data was obtained from the medical records department and post-mortem records of the pathology departments over a 5-year period from January 2007 to December 2011. The selection criteria include all case notes with mortality records involving children admitted into the paediatrics department through the labour ward and the obstetrics theater, children emergency unit (CHER), paediatric out-patient clinic.

A 20 year retrospective analysis of medicolegal deaths in a tertiary hospital setting in Nigeria.

Objective: To determine and classify the various types of medicolegal deaths as seen at University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Benin City, Nigeria.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective study of all the medicolegal deaths seen in the Department of Histopathology, (UBTH, Benin City over a 20 year period (January 1990-December 2009) as recorded in the autopsy registers of the department.

Result: A total of 5035 autopsies were done during the period, 89% of which were coroner cases.

Histopathological review of breast tumours in children and adolescents in Delta State Nigeria.

Background: Breast swellings in children and adolescents may be overlooked on assumption that they are physiological enlargement. Pathologic swellings including cancers have however been encountered in this age group. This study highlighted the spectrum of tumours in childhood and adolescents.