Cleft lip-cleft palate in Zimbabwe: estimating the distribution of the surgical burden of disease using geographic information systems.

Objectives/hypothesis: To evaluate the prevalence and unmet need for cleft lip-cleft palate reconstructive surgery by using incidence. Our hypotheses were that the age of presentation to screening clinics will decrease between 2006 and 2012, and the geospatial distribution of cases will expand to a more rural catchment area.

Study Design: Longitudinal cross-sectional/geospatial distribution study.

Xeroderma pigmentosum: a retrospective case series in Zimbabwe.

Purpose: To present our experience with the clinical features and management of black African patients with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP).

Patients And Methods: Twelve patients with XP were seen over a 25-year period, and were retrospectively reviewed for age, gender, clinical features, treatment, and follow-up.

Results: There were 8 females and 4 males with an age range of 3 to 18 years.

Noma (cancrum oris) in human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV and AIDS): clinical experience in Zimbabwe.

Purpose: This retrospective study describes the clinical features and management of noma (cancrum oris) in patients with HIV and AIDS.

Patients And Methods: Records of 48 consecutive patients with noma (cancrum oris) seen between July 2002 and November 2006 were reviewed for age, gender, clinical features, and management. Other reports on noma in HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe were also reviewed.

Primary malignant melanoma of the oral mucosa.

Purpose: To present our experience on the epidemiology, clinical features, management, and survival of patients with oral malignant melanoma.

Patients And Methods: Records of patients with a histologic diagnosis of primary oral mucosal malignant melanoma seen over a 23-year period were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: There were 6 females and 2 males, ranging in age from 18 to 60 years; 4 cases in the maxilla, 2 in the mandible, 1 on the lower lip, and 1 on the buccal mucosa.

Ranula: experience with 83 cases in Zimbabwe.

Purpose: To document the clinical features, management, and outcome of ranulas in Zimbabwe.

Methods: A retrospective review of clinical and pathologic records of 83 patients with ranulas who presented during the period of January 1981 to September 2003 was undertaken.

Results: Thirty-six (43.

Gigantic tongue lipoma: a case report.

Lipomas are among the most common tumors of the human body. However, they are uncommon in the oral cavity. In the oral cavity they present as a slow growing, painless, and asymptomatic yellowish submucosal mass.

Squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, maxillary antrum and lip in a Zimbabwean population: a descriptive epidemiological study.

Squamous cell carcinoma accounts for approximately 90% of oral malignancies. The objective of this study was to document the gender, age, sub-site distribution and histologic differentiation of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, maxillary antrum and lip in a Zimbabwean population. Hospital records of patients with a histologic diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, maxillary antrum and lip seen at Harare Central Hospital and Parirenyatwa Hospital in Zimbabwe during the period January 1982-December 1991 were reviewed.