Akua, a 47-year-old market trader in Kumasi, presents to the Komfo Anokye surgical outpatient clinic with a 3-month history of a painless lump in the right breast. She has no family history of breast …
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Abena, a 47-year-old teacher from Accra, underwent wide local excision and sentinel lymph node biopsy for a 2.2 cm invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast (ER+, PR+, HER2−, grade 2) at the Korle …
Ama, a 38-year-old nulliparous teacher, is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo to Komfo Anokye after a 6-week history of a right breast lump and recent onset of right arm swelling. She ha…
Esi, a 60-year-old retired civil servant in Accra, presents to the Korle Bu breast clinic with a 4-week history of right nipple retraction and bloody nipple discharge. She has no breast lump and no pa…
Adwoa, a 38-year-old seamstress, attends the Korle Bu breast clinic with a 4-week history of bloody nipple discharge from her right breast. She has no palpable breast mass and no axillary lymphadenopa…
A 4-year-old boy, Kofi, is brought to the Tamale Teaching Hospital A&E after scalding from boiling water. He has 20% TBSA burns to the trunk and right upper limb. He weighs 16 kg. Resuscitation is com…
A 35-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED after a house fire. He has burns to his entire right arm, the anterior surface of his trunk, and the anterior surface of his right lower lim…
A 6-year-old boy, Kofi, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by his parents after sustaining scald burns from boiling water. He is crying and alert. Burns involve the entire head and neck, the anterior c…
A 42-year-old man, Yaw, was rescued from a building fire after being trapped for approximately 20 minutes. He is brought to the regional hospital ED. He has a hoarse voice and is coughing persistently…
A 28-year-old woman, Ama, is admitted to a regional hospital A&E with 30% TBSA flame burns sustained 2 hours ago. She weighs 60 kg. Resuscitation with lactated Ringer's was commenced using the Parklan…
A 34-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED after a house fire. He has sustained flame burns to both upper limbs, the anterior trunk, and both anterior thighs. Using the rule of nines,…
A 38-year-old woman, Akua, is rescued from a house fire in Accra and brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre. She is confused (GCS 12), has a cherry-red skin colouration, and her SpO2 reads 99% on pu…
Ama, a 28-year-old woman weighing 60 kg, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre 30 minutes after sustaining flame burns to both lower limbs (entire circumference) and the anterior trunk. TBSA is es…
A 45-year-old man, Yaw, is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre from a building fire. He is hoarse, has singed nasal hairs, and carbonaceous (sooty) sputum is visible around his mouth and on oroph…
A 50-year-old woman named Adwoa is referred from a district hospital to the regional hospital in the Ashanti Region following a house fire. She sustained burns to her face, neck, and anterior chest. O…
A 35-year-old woman, Ama, weighing 60 kg, is admitted to the Korle Bu burns unit following a house fire. She sustained 40% TBSA mixed partial- and full-thickness burns to the trunk and lower limbs. Th…
A 22-year-old man, Yaw, sustains flame burns in a bush-fire accident near Tamale. He is brought to Tamale Teaching Hospital. On examination he has burns to his anterior right lower limb (9%), posterio…
Kwabena, a 9-year-old boy, is brought to the Tamale Teaching Hospital emergency department by his mother after scalding burns sustained when a pot of boiling groundnut soup fell on him approximately 9…
A 6-year-old boy, Kofi, weighing 20 kg, is brought to the paediatric surgical unit at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after scalding from a pot of boiling soup. He has burns to his head, neck, and ante…
Ama, a 34-year-old market trader, is admitted to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital burns unit after sustaining flame burns when her cooking gas cylinder exploded. She weighs 60 kg. Assessment using t…
A 55-year-old man is brought to the Korle Bu resus bay after a house fire. He was found in a smoke-filled room and has burns to his face, singed nasal hairs, carbonaceous deposits in the oropharynx, a…
A 35-year-old woman, Ama, with known sickle-cell disease (HbSS) is admitted to the surgical ward at a regional hospital in the Eastern Region following a kerosene lamp explosion. She has partial-thick…
A 42-year-old electrician, Yaw, is brought to a district hospital in the Northern Region after sustaining a high-voltage electrical burn (11,000 V) while working on a pylon. He has entry wounds on the…
Akua, a 35-year-old woman weighing 60 kg, is admitted to the Komfo Anokye emergency theatre resus bay after sustaining a flame burn at a cooking gas explosion. The burns team estimates her TBSA burn a…
A 4-year-old girl, Akua, is brought to the paediatric surgical ward of a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region after sustaining scald burns from a pot of boiling water. She has burns to her entire h…
A 28-year-old farmer named Kwame is brought by relatives to the district hospital surgical ward in Brong-Ahafo after a bush-fire accident. He sustained burns to his entire right upper limb, the anteri…
A 45-year-old woman, Ama, is admitted to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital burns unit with 40% TBSA mixed partial- and full-thickness burns following a house fire. She weighs 60 kg. Resuscitation wit…
A 45-year-old man, Mensah, is admitted to the Korle Bu burns unit following a house fire. He has burns to his face, neck, and both hands. On examination he is hoarse, has singed nasal hairs, carbonace…
A 28-year-old man, Kwame, is brought by relatives to the Komfo Anokye emergency department after a kerosene lantern explosion at his home in Kumasi. He has sustained burns to both upper limbs (anterio…
A 4-year-old girl, Abena, weighing 16 kg, is brought to a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region after scalding from boiling water spilled from a cooking pot. She has burns to the anterior and poster…