Mean platelet volume and total white blood cells as diagnostic biomarkers for acute appendicitis at Omdurman military hospital: a cross-sectional study - 2021.

Background: Acute appendicitis (AA) is among the most common nontraumatic indications for emergent abdominal surgical procedures. However, accurately diagnosing all cases can be challenging, physical examination, biochemical markers, and imaging techniques can sometimes be insufficient. This study aimed to (a) compare the mean platelet volume (MPV) and total white blood cell count (TWBCs) in patients with or without histological evidence of an inflamed appendix and (b) determine the positive predictive value, negative predictive value, sensitivity, and specificity of both MPV and TWBCs as diagnostic biomarkers in the diagnosis of AA.

Clean Energy Based Multigeneration System for Sustainable Cities: Thermodynamic, and Stability Analyses.

This paper concerns the development and analysis of multigeneration systems based on hybrid sources such as biomass and wind. Industry requires different types of sources to provide several outputs, so the goal of this research was to fulfill the industrial requirement with optimization. The multigeneration cycle supplies enough power to satiate energy demands, i.

A comparative study of polydioxanone (PDS) and polyglactin (Vicryl) in hypospadias repair.

Background: Hypospadias is a fairly common problem, and it is the most common genital congenital anomaly.

Objective: This study was carried out to compare polyglactin and polydioxanone in hypospadias repair by assessing the rate of complications, especially urethrocutaneous fistula (UCF) formation.

Patients And Methods: This is a prospective observational cross-sectional hospital-based study carried out at the Department of Paediatric Surgery, Ribat University Hospital, from June 2015 to November 2016.

Breast carcinoma in a boy with metastatic axillary lymph nodes.

The purpose of this report is to highlight the clinicopathological features, diagnosis, management and prognosis of rare childhood breast cancer. We herein report a case of slowly growing, locally advanced secretory carcinoma of the breast in an 11-year-old boy with metastatic axillary lymph nodes, 12 of them were totally replaced by the tumor cells. No evidence of distant metastases was detected.