We had a 56 year old chap who was involved in a road traffic accident. He sustained a fracture dislocation of his neck at the C6/C7 level with severe spinal cord injury. He was quadriplegic from... Read more

Dear Colleague,

We were in Port-harcourt last week to perform an operation at the new Zitadel Medical and Diagnostic Centre. The team flew into Port-harcourt overnight and performed an anterior cervical... Read more

Chest X-ray showing the radio-opaque foreign body

The aim of this study is to describe a case of an unusually impacted button lithium battery, in the mid-oesophagus of a 7-year-old child that was confirmed, and removed during... Read more

Mrs. N.P is a gravida four para three who was brought to the Accident and Emergency Unit at 22 weeks of pregnancy with 5 days history of muscle pain and progressive weakness of lower limbs and... Read more

I heard that a model hospital in Abuja, FCT sent a patient with acute abdomen for abdominal CT scan and x-rays. The patient who had been on admission for some time died upon arrival at the... Read more

I met a delightful woman this week. At 60 and seemingly educated, she came with a breast lump, unfortunately, to see a neurosurgeon!
Breast lumps are in my opinion badly managed in Nigeria.... Read more

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A 60-year-old female farmer presented at the hematology clinic on account of generalized body itching for 3 years and mild hypoanesthesia of the skin for 5 years. There were mixed hypopigmented... Read more

Figure 1: Penile defect on presentation

A 10-year-old boy was referred to the plastic surgery outpatient, with a 3-week history of degloving injury to the penile shaft. He had been attending to a cassava milling machine in his village,... Read more

A 41-year-old known hypertensive female lecturer who lives in Nigeria was managed for a 3-month history of left cervical lymph node enlargement, with partial response to two courses of antibiotics... Read more