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Our study was done to evaluate our bronchoscopic techniques; sizes and diagnostic yield. Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective study comprising all cases of bronchial biopsies done in the University of Benin Teaching Hospital from 2007 to 2011. All patients who had flexible bronchoscopy under general anaesthesia during the period under review where enrolled in the study. Results: There were a total of 16 patients: Nine males and seven females; with a mean age of 46.9 years. The main indications were cough (87.5); weight loss (62.5); X-ray findings of a chest lesion (87.5); chest pain (62.5); difficulty with breathing (31.3) and massive haemoptysis (25). Histology results showed inadequate samples in six and Bronchogenic carcinoma in four patients. The histology was pivotal in eight patients. Conclusion: Bronchoscopic biopsies are fraught with problems and other clinical investigative tools would certainly be important in improving the results
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Biopsy/methods , Bronchoscopy , Histological Techniques , Hospitals , Outcome Assessment, Health Care , TeachingABSTRACT
A 10-year study of all cervical biopsies and hysterectomy specimens received in the Department of Pathology; Victoria Hospital was carried out. Representative punch biopsies of cervix; either colposcope guided; or taken from non-staining areas of cervix following application of Schiller's iodine paint; and fixed in 10 per cent formal saline in the theatre were received in the pathology department. During the ten year period (1983-1992); 175 cases of cervical cancer were detected. Of these; 66 cases were at the CIN 3 stage; 28 were CIN 3 with microinvasion; 69 cases showed frank infiltrating squamos cell carcinoma; 11 exhibited adenocarcinoma and 1 had adenosquamous features
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Adenocarcinoma , Biopsy/methods , Hysterectomy/methods , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/trendsABSTRACT
L'Enquete epidemiologique effectuee dans la vallee de la Bini montre que l'onchocercose touche l'ensemble de la population urbaine. Les resultats obtenus dans les villages sont sensiblement identiques. On note en effet que la prevalence parasitaire est de 57;3pour les hommes et de 50;3pour les femmes. Cette difference entre les sexes est encore accentuee par le calcul du nombre moyen de microfilaires par biopsie entamee. Celui-ci est de 55 pour les hommes et de 22 pour les femmes
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Biopsy/methods , Onchocerciasis/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Although disease patterns vary from region to region; it must not assumed that malignant breast disease is uncommon in our region. A retrospective study of results of histological examination of breast lumps sent from the surgeons around the Freetown Area during the period October 1988 up to June 1990 showed that of 62 biopsies examined 14 were malignant