Profile of a Malignant Brain Tumour in Jamaica: An Eight-year Review, 2005 to 2012.

Objective: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most malignant and most common primary brain tumour worldwide. This study was undertaken to investigate the demographics of this tumour in Jamaica as there is to date no such published data. Data from the recently started Intracranial Tumour Registry (ITR) at the University Hospital of the West Indies was used.

Clinical Factors Associated with Morbidity and Mortality in Patients Admitted with Sickle Cell Disease.

Objective: To determine the clinical factors associated with the length of hospitalization and mortality in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD).

Methods: All patients with SCD admitted to the medical wards of the University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica, over a five-year period, January 1 to December 31, 2010, were reviewed. Data were extracted from hospital charts and comprised demographic and clinical information, investigations, interventions, duration of stay, pathological data and outcomes.

Metastatic primary neuroendocrine carcinoma of the genitourinary tract: A case report of an uncommon entity.

Patient: Male, 59.

Final Diagnosis: Neuroendocrine carcinoma of urinary bladder.

Symptoms: Dysuria • hematuria.

The establishment of an intracranial tumour registry at the University Hospital of the West Indies.

In March 2010, the first intracranial tumour registry (ITR) in the English-speaking Caribbean was started at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). This was deemed necessary as the already established Jamaica Cancer Registry only reports on malignant brain tumours. The ITR will collect data on all prospective intracranial tumours, benign and malignant, which are diagnosed histologically at the UHWI.