Oral Tumours In Zaria

Malignant tumours of childhood in Zaria.

BACKGROUND The increased prevalence of hitherto uncommon tumours in children in our geographic setting formed the basis for this study. This study aimed to determine the current histopathologic distribution pattern of paediatric malignancies in Zaria. MATERIALS AND METHODS An eight year (2000-2007) consecutive analysis of malignant tumours in children ages 0 to 15 years in a referral Universi...

Neural Tumours of Oral and Para Oral Region

A spectrum of benign and malignant neural tumors can occur in oral and perioral region. The growth pattern and subsequent clinical behavior of the neurogenous tumors differs in different sites and pose significant diagnostic and therapeutic problems. This paper reviews the neural tumours of oral & paraoral region.

Oral cavity tumours including the lip

Shigellosis in Zaria, northern Nigeria.

368 strains of Shigella were recovered from stool specimens in the Department of Medical Microbiology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, during the period January 1980 to December 1984. S. flexneri was found to be the most common (60%) followed by S. boydii (20.7%), S. dysenteriae (14.1%) and S. sonnei (5.2%). Males were more frequently infected (61.4%) than females (38.6%). Max...

Angiogenesis in Malignant Oral-cavity Tumours in Dogs

The aim of this study was to determine the vascularisation level in malignant tumours of the oral cavity. The studied material comprised 10 samples of neoplastic tissue extracted from dogs with a suspicion of oral cavity carcinoma. The samples were collected from nine male and one female dogs of various breeds, aged between 6 and 16 years. The tumours were located within the areas of mandibular...