ABSTRACT
One hundred and forty eight healthy and 152 undernourished children with varying degrees of severity were studied to see if their buccal smear correlated with undernourishment. The frankly undernourished children had retrograde changes more often than the other children. But the proportion of children showing no retrograde changes was similar in the different groups. It was concluded that buccal smear is not a dependable indicator of under nutrition.
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Cheek , Child , Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena , Child, Preschool , Cytodiagnosis/methods , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Female , Humans , Infant , Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena , Infant, Newborn , Male , Mouth Mucosa/cytology , Nutrition Disorders/diagnosisABSTRACT
The nephrotic syndrome is clinical entity having multiple etiology. In the present study, 70 cases of nephrotic syndrome both in children and adults have been studied. The condition appears to be more common than thought of. The histological classification is helpful both in management and forecasting the prognosis. Steorid and cytotoxic drugs have been used in light negative glomerulonephritis and lupus nephritis producing nephrotic syndrome with good results. The other forms of of glomerulonephritis needs further study to be able to offer any specific therapy.
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Adult , Child , Child, Preschool , Cyclophosphamide/therapeutic use , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Nephrotic Syndrome/drug therapyABSTRACT
In the present study, 1736 cases of cancer has been analysed by major sites, sub-sites and mortality trend. The most common cancerous lesion in the male was in the lungs and in the female in the uterine cervix. The second common lesion in male and female were larynx and breast respectively. In children, retinoblastoma was the commonest type of cancer.
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Age Factors , Bangladesh , Female , Humans , Male , Neoplasms/epidemiology , Sex FactorsABSTRACT
This study was undertaken to find out the frequency of bone tumours and to evaluate the effectiveness of drill biopsy for tumourous bony lesions. A total of 182 cases of bone tumours and tumour-like lesions were studied histopathologically. Of these, 100 (54.95%) cases were found to be malignant, 45 (24.73%) benign and 28 (15.38%) tumour-like lesions. A total of 38 drill biopsies were performed where 29 cases had corresponding open biopsies. Of these, 22 cases (75.86%) had concordances in diagnosis. The overall success of drill biopsy was 73.68%.
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Bangladesh , Biopsy/methods , Bone Neoplasms/epidemiology , Female , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
One hundred and thirty cases of cholelithiasis were studied in the surgical wards of the Institute of Postgraduate Medicine and Research, Dacca. Geographical distribution, pattern of clinical features, results of biochemical, microbiolgical, histopathological and other investigations have been recorded.