ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: A case of a 2.7kg term baby with a large epignathus, a rare congenital teratoma arising from the palate is presented. Birth was by spontaneous vaginal delivery (SVD). The baby survived following a timely multidisciplinary approach to her management. This is the first reported case in Ghana.
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Palatal Neoplasms/congenital , Teratoma/congenital , Female , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Palatal Neoplasms/pathology , Teratoma/pathologyABSTRACT
Intussusceptions is the telescoping or invagination of a portion of intestine (intussusceptum) into an adjacent segment (intussuscipiens). It is one of the common causes of bowel obstruction in infants and toddlers.Sonography has now been accepted as a method for guiding hydrostatic reduction of intussusception with tap water, normal saline or Ringer's lactate solution. This method is currently being used at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. It is a very simple, efficient, economical and quick method of managing intussusception. The duration of the procedure ranges between two minutes and thirty minutes, with the majority being under ten minutes. A total of twenty intussusceptions were managed in eighteen patients over a nine month period. In fifteen patients (75%) the intussusception was reduced successfully. In five patients (25%), the procedure failed to reduce the intussusceptions.
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Colonic Diseases/therapy , Enema/methods , Intussusception/therapy , Child, Preschool , Colonic Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Female , Hospitals, Teaching , Humans , Hydrostatic Pressure , Infant , Intussusception/diagnostic imaging , Male , Recurrence , Treatment Outcome , UltrasonographyABSTRACT
We report a case of human pentastomiasis in a 55-year-old farmer whose diagnosis was made incidentally during laparotomy on account of a mechanical small intestinal obstruction caused by adhesions. Encysted parasites and degenerative granulomas were found in the omentum and in the subserosal layer of the small intestine. These parasites were diagnosed as Armillifer armillatus larvae. The patient made an uneventful recovery after the operation and was discharged. He is being followed up.
