Surgical quality in colorectal cancer.

Objective: To determine the quality of surgical management offered to patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) as measured by adequacy of nodal resections and compare variations across the major hospitals in Jamaica.

Method: Data was obtained from the CRC Registry of patients diagnosed and treated surgically for CRC during the 3-year period commencing January 1, 2011. Variables analyzed included tumor site, stage and number of lymph nodes resected across hospitals.

Lynch syndrome in a predominantly Afrocentric population: a clinicopathological and genetic study.

Background: We investigated the prevalence of Lynch syndrome as a hereditary cause of colon cancer in the young Jamaican colorectal cancer (CRC) population.

Methods: We identified patients aged 40 years or younger in whom primary CRC was diagnosed at the University Hospital of the West Indies from January 2004 to December 2008. We reviewed the medical records and hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained histopathology slides.

A woman with diabetes presenting with pyomyoma and treated with subtotal hysterectomy: a case report.

Introduction: Pyomyoma (suppurative leiomyoma of the uterus) is a rare condition resulting from infarction and infection of a leiomyoma. It is more usual in pregnant women or postmenopausal women who have vascular disease. The condition is usually fatal unless treated with appropriate antibiotics and surgical intervention.

Comparative effects of dietary administered transgenic and conventional papaya on selected intestinal parameters in rat models.

Transformation of agricultural crops with novel genes has significantly advanced disease-resistance breeding, including virus resistance through the expression of virus sequences. In this study, the effects of long-term, repeated exposure to transgenic papayas carrying the coat protein gene of Papaya ringspot virus and conventional non-transgenic papaya on the histology and selected biochemical parameters of the intestinal tract were compared. For 3 months, male and female Wistar rats received diets containing transgenic or non-transgenic papaya at twice the equivalent of the average daily consumption of fresh papayas.

Primary epithelial tumours of the appendix in a black population: a review of cases.

Aim: To determine the prevalence, histologic types and clinical features of primary epithelial tumours of the vermiform appendix in a predominantly black population.

Methods: All cases of primary tumours of the appendix identified by review of the histopathology records at the University of the West Indies between January 1987 and June 2007 were selected. Relevant pathologic and clinical data were extracted with supplementation from patient charts where available.

The Venezuela eye evaluation study.

Unlabelled: One-thousand-eighty-one rural and urban inhabitants of Venezuela were discovered to have good uncorrected visual acuity. This was especially noted among the males who were examined. More myopia was seen than previously reported, while earlier presbyopia was confirmed.