Foot-at-risk among adult outpatients with diabetes mellitus in Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Nigeria.

Introduction: the rising prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) around the world has dramatically increased the number of people bearing the complications of this potentially incapacitating disease. One of these complications is foot ulcers that may result in amputation. This study sets out to determine the profiles of the "foot-at-risk" for ulceration and the associated socio-medical factors in DM patients.

Radiation-free interlocking intramedullary nailing of three-hundred and seventy long bone fractures in Ogbomoso, Nigeria.

Long bone fracture care in developing countries remains largely different from that of the developed world where closed reduction and internal fixation with locked intramedullary nail is the standard treatment. This study in a developing country presents the pattern and outcome of treatment of 370 long bone fractures using the SIGN nail over a five-year period in order to underline the wide array of patients and fractures treatable with the nail. Using a prospective descriptive approach, all the 342 patients with 370 fractures of the humerus, femur and tibia treated from July 2014 to June 2019 were studied.