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.

Fatal gunshot injuries in Benin City, Nigeria.

An upsurge in gun violence in recent times in our environment necessitated this study, which aims to document the patterns of fatal gunshot injuries with the hope of finding a solution to this problem. The study was a retrospective analysis of cases of fatal gunshot injuries on which autopsies were carried out over the 5-year period from January 1998 to December 2002 at Police Medical Services, Benin City - a Nigerian ancient town located in the South-South zone of the country. Most cases of medico-legal death in Benin City and environs are referred to the Police Pathologist at the center for autopsy.

Medicolegal childhood deaths in Benin City, Nigeria.

Background: Children under the age of 15 years constitute over 40% of the population in developing countries of the world including Nigeria. Deaths in this age group also contribute over 40% of total mortality in the general population; a significant proportion of these deaths is of medicolegal importance.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the frequency and pattern of medicolegal deaths during childhood period.

Histopathological review of solid tumours in neonates at University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria.

A retrospective analysis of solid tumours in children less than 28days old over a 31 year period (1978-2008) was carried out at University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) to determine the incidence and histological patterns of such tumours. A total of 17 cases were seen during the study period: 16 cases (9 in males and 7 in females) were benign and 1 was malignant and it was recorded in the male gender. Vascular tumours (n=9), granular cell tumours (n=4), teratomas (n=2) and myxofibroma (n=1) were the histological types of benign tumours seen.

Malignant childhood solid tumours in Benin City, Nigeria.

Background: Tumours are uncommon in childhood; malignancies are even more uncommon. Yet malignancies are among the leading causes of childhood death in many parts of the world. The pattern of these tumours in Benin City Nigeria, however, is not known.

Benign childhood tumours in Benin City, Nigeria.

A retrospective analysis of benign tumours seen in children aged 0-14 years over a 10-year period (1993-2002) was carried out in Benin City Nigeria, in order to determine the various histological types of such tumours. A total of 76 cases were seen during the study period, out of which 32 occurred in males and 44 in females. The commonest histological categories were tumours of connective tissues, peripheral nerve and teratoma.

Urethral fibrosis with pyonephrosis in a patient with situs inversus totalis: a case report.

Background: Cases of a case of situs inversus totalis are very rare and therefore when encountered, they are likely to be missed or poorly managed.

Objective: To present a case of situs inversus totalis with a view to creating more awareness about this rare clinical entity.

Patient And Method: The patient, a 22 year old boy was referred from a private clinic after a failed and complicated attempted appendicectomy carried out by a general medical practitioner.

Ocular melanoma presenting as a case of panophthalmitis in a 78-year-old Nigerian woman (masquerade syndrome): an uncommon finding in Benin City, Nigeria.

Theodore states that the term 'masquerade syndrome' first appeared in the ophthalmic literature in 1967 to describe a conjunctival carcinoma that presented as chronic conjunctivitis. Since then, the masquerade syndrome label has been applied to a group of disorders that mimic ocular inflammatory disease. Although some benign conditions can be considered masquerade syndromes, most often the term refers to malignant entities.