Association Between Congenital Heart Disease-Related Diagnosis Codes and Trauma Surgery Outcomes.

Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one the most common congenital anomalies, with a prevalence of 8-10 cases per 1000 live births in the United States. Congenital heart disease has been recognized as a risk factor for poor perioperative and postoperative outcomes in non-cardiac surgery. We aimed to determine if documentation of CHD-related diagnosis codes was associated with similar risks for trauma surgery.

Paediatric soft tissue sarcomas in a resource constraint setting: Grade and stage at presentation and at oncologic intervention are usually of poor prognostic characteristics.

Aim: To describe the pattern of paediatric Rhabdomyosarcomas (RMS) and Non-Rhabdomyosarcomas (NRMS) with emphasis on the indices that affect survival outcomes.

Methods: We reviewed all patients with histologically confirmed RMS and NRMS in the Departments of Pathology and Paediatrics, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria; in children aged 0-14 years. The study period was January 1991 to December 2016.

Assessment of Serological Markers of Genital Chlamydia trachomatis Infection Among the Gynaecology Patients attending Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection causes significant morbidity and mortality in women. A number of epidemiologic studies have suggested that Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is more accurate as a diagnostic tool for Chlamydia trachomatis. However, the use of serological markers may be cost effective and practical in diagnosing and estimating the burden of the disease in resource limited countries.

Idiopathic scrotal calcinosis: report of 2 cases, and review of pathogenesis and factors that determine patients' acceptance of surgical treatment.

Introduction: Idiopathic scrotal calcinosis is a benign and rare disease of the scrotal skin that presents as solitary or multiple asymptomatic calcified nodules in the absence of systemic disorders of calcium/phosphorus balance.

Case Reports: We report the management of 2 cases and review the literature with comments on factors that determine acceptance or otherwise of surgical treatment. Our patients were 29 and 33 years old and presented with nodular scrotal lesions.

Central nervous system tumours in children in Ibadan, Nigeria: a histopathologic study.

Introduction: Contrary to some earlier teachings that central nervous system (CNS) tumours are uncommon in black children, these neoplasms are the fourth most common paediatric tumours in Ibadan. Our centre is the major referral centre for CNS tumours in Nigeria. The last major study of paediatric CNS neoplasms from Ibadan was in 1985.