Malaria patients in Nigeria: Data exploration approach.

Malaria is a life threatening disease which is usually transmitted to people through the bite of infected female anopheles mosquitoes. However, this article deals with the data exploration of malaria symptoms reported by 337 patients attended to at Federal Polytechnic Ilaro Medical centre, Ogun State Nigeria. The study covers a period of four (4) weeks monitoring of patients attendance, their consultation with physician and malaria test results as compared to their claims of malaria infection.

5 Year old girl with malignant lymphoblastic lymphoma: challenges of managing haematological malignancies in a developing country.

Background: Lymphoblastic lymphoma (LBL) is a neoplasm of lymphoblasts. The condition is predominantly lymph node-based disease arising from immature T cells in 85-90% of cases and immature B cells in the remainder. The lymphoma is aggressive, progresses rapidly, and often presenting as stage IV disease in more than 70% of patients.