Wound-related Pain and Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Wounds in a Metropolitan City in Nigeria: An Analytic Cross-sectional Study.

Background: The prevalence of chronic wounds is expected to rise with the increasing elderly population in the society. This rise in prevalence of chronic wounds comes with its consequences such as wound pain and interference with activities of daily living. There's a paucity of data on the impact of chronic wounds in our clime.

Presentation, Clinical Outcome, and Quality of Life of Patients Treated for Head and Neck Skin Cancer at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.

Introduction: Patients with head and neck skin cancer experience adverse functional, psychosocial, and financial impacts as a result of the disease and/or its treatment. This study aimed at evaluating the pattern of presentation, clinical outcomes, and quality of life of patients with head and neck skin cancer.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study of patients with head and neck skin cancer presenting to the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, from January 2017 to December 2021.

Thermographic Mapping of Arterial Perforators in the Leg.

Background: Preoperative localisation of perforators aids in easy intraoperative dissection. Infrared thermography is a simple, safe, and effective tool with a short learning curve that is useful in identifying perforators. It has been found to have a high concordance rate when compared with computed tomography angiography and is useful in identifying arterial perforators in the leg.

Differences in burn wound size estimation between points of referral and the burn unit: experience at a major burn center in southwestern Nigeria.

Background: Accurate burn wound size estimation is important for resuscitation and subsequent management. It is also important for the development of referral guidelines in Nigeria.

Objective: To establish whether a significant discrepancy exists in burn size estimation between referral centers and burn units.

Changing Epidemiology and Outcome of Pediatric Thermal Burn Injury in South Western Nigeria.

The pediatric age group has been noted to be particularly vulnerable to burn injuries. Burn is the fifth most common cause of childhood injuries. Nigeria has a very young population with a median age of 18.

Current Trend in the Epidemiology of Thermal Burn Injury at a Tertiary Hospital in South Western Nigeria.

Worldwide, thermal burn is the leading etiological type of burn injury accounting for 86% of burn injuries requiring admissions. Flame, Scald, and contact burn are the leading causes of thermal burn. Changes in the sociodemographic characteristics of societies have led to alterations in the epidemiology of burn.

The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Acute Burn Admissions at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.

The coronavirus disease and the subsequent pandemic that followed drastically changed human civilization with disruptive effects on health and overall wellbeing of mankind. This disruptive effect has been shown to include changes in epidemiology of burn injuries. This study therefore aimed to determine the impact of covid-19 on acute burn presentation at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.

Plasma Zinc Levels in Patients with Chronic Leg Ulcers at University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Background: Chronic leg ulcers are defects in the skin below the level of knee persisting for more than six weeks and shows no tendency to heal after three or more months. Zinc is a necessary component of several DNA & RNA polymerases and transferases essential for cell proliferation. Zinc deficiency is known to retard wound healing by preventing cellular mitosis and disturbance of fibroblast function and collagen synthesis.

Glycerolised Skin Allografts for Extensive Burns in Low- and Middle-income Countries.

Introduction: There has been a significant improvement in the outcome of treatment of large surface area burns in developed countries. A major contributory factor is an early excision and skin grafting of burn wounds. The initial coverage of large surface area deep burn wounds requires the use of temporary skin substitutes such as allografts due to limited skin autografts.

Pattern of congenital hand anomalies at a tertiary plastic surgery service in South-Western Nigeria: A 10-year, cross-sectional retrospective review.

Context: Although congenital hand anomalies are among the more common musculoskeletal anomalies worldwide, we do not know its prevalence in our practice.

Aims: The aim of the study was to determine the pattern of congenital hand anomalies presenting to our tertiary plastic surgery outpatient service in South-Western Nigeria.

Materials And Methods: This is a cross-sectional retrospective analysis of outpatient cases of congenital hand anomalies presenting over a 10-year period.

Time to return to school in child and adolescent burn patients from a sub-Saharan tertiary hospital.

Background: Africa, with the largest number of paediatric burns needs to focus more attention on paediatric burn survivors. Burn injury truncates schooling in child and adolescent burn patients. The aim of this study was to determine the time to return to school and factors influencing this in child and adolescent burn patients.

Pediatric keloids: A 6-year retrospective review.

Background/objectives: Keloids are reportedly rare at the extremes of life. We sought to describe the epidemiology of pediatric keloids seen at the plastic surgery outpatient department of the University College Hospital, Ibadan.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed all children younger than 19 years who presented with nonburn keloids between 2008 and 2014.

Point Prevalence of Chronic Wounds at a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria.

Background: Chronic wounds are a drain on resources both for the patient and health institution. Management of chronic wounds based on evidence-based practice requires baseline data for adequate planning.

Objectives: This study was carried out to determine the point prevalence of chronic wounds in a tertiary hospital (University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria) and utilize this information for subsequent wound care planning.

Comparative Review of Burns With Inhalation Injury in a Tertiary Hospital in a Developing Country.

Objective: Inhalation injury is an acute respiratory tract insult caused by direct thermal injury, carbon monoxide poisoning, or toxic chemical inhalants, such as fumes, gases, and mist. The aim of this study is to review the authors' experiences in a regional burn unit in a developing country.

Methods: The University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria prospective burn unit database was retrospectively reviewed from January 2001 to December 2013 and analyzed using SPSS software, version 16 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL).

Propeller Flap for Complex Distal Leg Reconstruction: A Versatile Alternative when Reverse Sural Artery Flap is Not Feasible.

Reverse sural artery fasciocutaneous flap has become a workhorse for the reconstruction of distal leg soft tissue defects. When its use is not feasible, perforator-based propeller flap offers a better, easier, faster, and cheaper alternative to free flap. We present our experience with two men both aged 34 years who sustained Gustilo 3B injuries from gunshot.

The reverse sural artery flap for the reconstruction of distal third of the leg and foot.

Soft tissue defects around the distal third of the leg and the foot present a major reconstructive challenge. There is limited expertise with free tissue transfers in many developing countries, necessitating consideration of other options for the closure of such defects. The versatility and reliability of sural artery flap have made it an emerging popular option for the reconstruction of such defects.

Pattern of presentation of pressure ulcers in traumatic spinal cord injured patients in University College Hospital, Ibadan.

The neurosurgery division in University College Hospital (U.C.H.

Primary osteogenic sarcoma of the breast.

Background: Primary extra-osseous osteogenic sarcomas have been reported in many tissues of the body but their occurrence in the breast is extremely rare. It can arise as a result of osseous metaplasia in a pre-existing benign or malignant neoplasm of the breast or as non-phylloides sarcoma from the soft tissue of a previously normal breast.

Case Presentation: A 40 year-old Nigerian woman was clinically diagnosed to have carcinoma of the left breast.