A study of neonatal malaria infection was conducted between 1st April 2021 to 30th October determine the prevalence among infant admitted in Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOHT) Amaku Awka Anambra State South Eastern Nigeria. Four Hundred and Twenty (420) neonates at General Outpatient Department (GOPD) Paediatrics unit. Two hundred 200 (47%) po...

Background: Lymphangiomas are relatively rare, benign, congenital malformations, which may affect the conjunctiva, lids and orbit of the eyes. Lymphangiomas are commonly located behind the orbital septum and usually manifest with proptosis, as well as the pain caused by spontaneous intralesional hemorrhage or upper respiratory infection. Previous studies have proposed the major causes of neonat...

Many biological aspects of deep-water sharks are poorly known due to their rarity and difficulties in conducting detailed research on them. The angular roughshark ( Oxynotus centrina ) is a rare species, critically endangered the Mediterranean Sea, which records scarce across this region. Here we present record female neonate O. from south-eastern Adriatic caught by Montenegrin commercial trawl...

Background: It is well known that the number of surviving preterm infants today steadily rising. In spite improvements in perinatal medicine, brain injury still a major clinical problem and remains an important cause morbidity mortality. The main aim to assess significance universal cranial ultrasound screening all neonates neonatal ICU with gestational age between 28 37 weeks even if clinicall...

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a group of rare inherited disorders of connective tissue with the common feature of excessive fragility of bones caused by mutations in collagen. Diagnosis is mainly based on the clinical features of the disorder. We report, the case of a male neonate delivered to a 33-year-old para 2 female at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu with no family history...

A 5-day-old female neonate presented with persistent non-bilious projectile vomiting since birth. Baby girl was born at term by normal vaginal delivery. Antenatal scans at 12 and 20 weeks of pregnancy were reported as normal. Mother had polyhydramnios in late pregnancy. Baby was discharged home the same day of birth. The baby however developed non-bilious projectile emesis on the same day after...

A female neonate, baby A, was examined in the nursery and noted to have a small skin tag in the sacrococcygeal region (Fig. 1). The rest of her exam was normal and there were no obvious neurological deficits or any palpable bony defects. No skin tags were noted anywhere else on her body. Baby A’s mother had two vaginal skin tags. Upon further questioning, we discovered that baby A’s father, mat...

We report a case of congenital immature teratoma of the orbit in a female neonate who presented on the second day of life. She was successfully managed by modified exenteration. The patient was lost to follow-up intermittently over a 24-month period without recurrence of the tumour. However the patient could not be traced again after 24 months of follow up. This happened despite concerted effor...