A 10-month-old boy, Kofi, is brought to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital emergency theatre. He has had colicky abdominal pain and bilious vomiting for 36 hours. His mother initially managed him at h…
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A 7-month-old female infant, Akua, is referred from a district hospital in the Upper West Region to the regional hospital surgical unit. The referral note states she has had 24 hours of episodic irrit…
A 6-month-old boy, Yaw, is brought to a district hospital in the Upper East Region. His mother reports 10 hours of intermittent crying with legs drawn up, one episode of vomiting, and passage of dark …
A 14-month-old boy, Kofi, is brought to the emergency surgical unit at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital with a 20-hour history of colicky abdominal pain, bilious vomiting, and passage of dark-red blood per …
A 10-month-old girl, Esi, is brought to the emergency bay of a district hospital in the Northern Region by her grandmother. She has been crying intermittently for 18 hours and has vomited four times. …
A 10-month-old girl, Akua, is referred from a district hospital in the Bono East Region to the regional hospital with a 10-hour history of colicky abdominal pain, vomiting, and passage of blood-staine…
A 9-month-old boy, Kofi, is brought to the emergency department of a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region by his mother, who reports that he has been crying intermittently and drawing up his legs f…
A 7-month-old girl, Akua, is referred from a district hospital to the regional hospital in the Ashanti Region. She has had colicky abdominal pain and vomiting for 14 hours. Her mother reports passage …
An 8-month-old girl, Ama, is referred from a district hospital in the Northern Region to Tamale Teaching Hospital with a 20-hour history of paroxysmal crying, vomiting, and progressive abdominal diste…
A 14-month-old boy, Kofi, presents to the Korle Bu paediatric surgical unit with a 36-hour history of abdominal pain and vomiting. His mother reports he has not passed stool or flatus for 24 hours and…
A 7-month-old girl, Akua, is referred from a district hospital in the Bono Region to the regional hospital with a 6-hour history of paroxysmal crying, drawing up of the knees, and one episode of bilio…
A 7-month-old girl, Akua, is referred from a district hospital in the Bono East Region to the regional hospital with a 12-hour history of colicky abdominal pain, vomiting, and passage of blood-stained…
A 9-month-old boy, Kwame, is brought to the paediatric surgical ward at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital by his mother, who reports that he has had intermittent episodes of inconsolable crying and drawi…
A 7-month-old girl, Ama, is referred from a district hospital in the Northern Region to Tamale Teaching Hospital with a 12-hour history of intermittent screaming episodes and bilious vomiting. Her mot…
A 4-year-old boy, Kofi, is brought to the Korle Bu paediatric surgical unit with a 3-day history of colicky abdominal pain and vomiting. His mother reports he was treated for a febrile illness with ly…
A 38-year-old male teacher, Kwabena, is admitted to the Korle Bu surgical unit with a two-day history of severe epigastric pain, nausea, and vomiting. He gives a six-month history of recurrent peptic …
A 45-year-old woman, Ama, is referred from a regional hospital to the UGMC surgical firm with a 3-year history of recurrent peptic ulcer disease refractory to proton pump inhibitor therapy, episodic w…
During a total thyroidectomy for a large multinodular goitre at the Komfo Anokye regional theatre, the senior registrar identifies four parathyroid glands. At the end of the procedure, the inferior ri…
A 44-year-old man, Kofi, undergoes a right hemithyroidectomy for a 3 cm follicular thyroid neoplasm at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. The operation proceeds uneventfully and he is transferred to …
A 38-year-old woman, Ama, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency resus bay by relatives with a 2-day history of severe nausea, vomiting, confusion, and generalised weakness. She has no known past medica…
A 60-year-old man, Mensah, with end-stage renal disease on haemodialysis for 7 years at a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region, is referred to the KATH surgical firm with progressive bone pain, pro…
A 58-year-old man, Kwame, is reviewed in the renal outpatient clinic at a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region. He has been on haemodialysis for 11 years for end-stage renal disease secondary to di…
A consultant surgeon at the Korle Bu general surgical unit is performing a right-sided focused minimally invasive parathyroidectomy on a 52-year-old woman, Ama, for a preoperatively localised right in…
A 62-year-old woman, Ama, is admitted to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital medical ward with confusion, severe nausea, vomiting, and profound weakness for three days. She was recently diagnosed with …
During a right hemithyroidectomy for a 4 cm follicular thyroid nodule at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, the operating registrar identifies a small, tan-coloured, oval structure measuring approximatel…
A 52-year-old woman, Akua, is referred from a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after incidental laboratory findings. She presented initially with fatigue, cons…
A 62-year-old woman, Ama, is admitted to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital medical ward with confusion, nausea, vomiting, and severe constipation for 5 days. Her daughter reports she has been increas…
A 45-year-old woman, Akua, is referred to the Korle Bu general surgical unit from a regional hospital in the Ashanti region. She presents with a 6-month history of generalised bone pain, fatigue, poly…
A 45-year-old woman, Ama, undergoes a total thyroidectomy for a multinodular goitre at a regional hospital in the Eastern Region. She is reviewed on the first post-operative morning and complains of p…
A 38-year-old man, Kwabena, is evaluated at the UGMC surgical firm for recurrent peptic ulcer disease refractory to proton pump inhibitor therapy and bilateral nephrolithiasis. His father died of panc…