Fracture of the penis is rupture of the tunica albuginea and the usual cause is abrupt bending of the erect penis by blunt trauma. Trauma during sexual relation is responsible for approximately one third of all cases. The incidence of urethral injuries associated with this condition ranged from 2.0% to 38.0%. Twelve patients who presented to emergency over a period of 4 years with diagnosis of ...

BACKGROUND Abdominal injury is relatively common in both civilian and military casualties and remains a major source of morbidity and mortality. The mechanism of injury may be blunt or penetrating. Some would require operative intervention, whereas others may be managed conservatively. OBJECTIVE The aim was to determine the pattern and outcome of management of abdominal injuries in the Univer...

This erratum corrects article: "Maternal mortality in Cameroon: a university teaching hospital report." The Pan African Medical Journal. 2015;21:16. doi:10.11604/pamj.2015.21.16.3912[This corrects the article on p. 16 in vol. 21, PMID: 26401210.].

background and objectives: pharmacovigilance is central to the control of the menace of adverse drugs reactions. despite the fact that development of policy and practice framework to improve patients’ safety partly rely on availability of authentic data on pharmacovigilance activities, knowledge about pharmacovigilance activities among healthcare professionals in nigeria is limited. to help fil...

a survey on viewpoints of emergency ward staff in teaching   hospitals of qazvin university of medical sciences   n. peiravi [1] , sh. shams [2] , b. delgoshai [3]     abstract:   introduction: without having an active emergency and trauma center, no hospital can serve effectively because the effectiveness of other hospital services depends on the function of this part. the current study has be...

Nada M. A. Suliman, Anne N. Åstrøm, Raouf W. Ali, Hussein Salman, Anne C. Johannessen 5, § Section for pathology, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Department of Clinical Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Faculty of Dentistry, University of Science and Technology, Umdurman, Sudan Dermatology Clinic, Khartoum Teaching Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan Haukeland Unive...

1 Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (DITM), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 2 Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, 3 Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, 4 Dr. Battke SCIENTI...