ABSTRACT
Data from the cancer register in the Department of Child Health, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Accra, Ghana was reviewed in order to document the pattern of malignancies seen in children. Out of a total of 15,200 admissions over a 40 month period there were 254 malignancies diagnosed constituting 1.67% of all admission. Lymphoma was the commonest tumour constituting 67% with Burkitt's Lymphoma being the commonest subtype. This was followed by Retinoblastoma (8.6%), Leukaemia (8.2%) and Wilms tumour (7.8%). This trend is similar to the picture seen in other developing countries in Africa where there is a high incidence of lymphoma and a low incidence of leukaemia, the converse being the case in Europe and North America.
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Developing Countries , Leukemia/epidemiology , Lymphoma/epidemiology , Neoplasms/epidemiology , Child , Child, Preschool , Cross-Cultural Comparison , Cross-Sectional Studies , Female , Ghana/epidemiology , Hospitals, Teaching/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Incidence , Infant , Male , Referral and Consultation/statistics & numerical dataABSTRACT
A female infant with Holt-Oram syndrome of skeletal and cardiovascular anomalies is described
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Forearm/abnormalities , InfantABSTRACT
Eighteen (18) Ghanaian children with nutritional rickets seen in the Department of Child Health; Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) from 1985-1994 are reported. Their ages ranged from 14 months to 44 months. Their mean age at presentation is 29.4 months. There were eight (8) boys and ten (10) girls. None of these 18 children was receiving the daily recommended allowance (DRA) of Vitamin D. They all had characteristic diagnostic X-ray findings in their wrist and ankle bones. The product of their serum calcium (Ca2+) and serum inorganic phosphate (Pi) that is (Ca2+ x Pi) was less than 30 in all of them and all had markedly raised serum alkaline phosphatase levels