Magnetic Resonance Imaging has become the best imaging modality to evaluate patients with spinal tuberculosis, which is an indolent disease, leads to neurological disability, following delay in diagnosis and treatment. ...

ABSTRACT Background: The number of blind years resulting from blindness in children is alarmingly high. Blindness in children can have a significant impact on their performance at school as well as their social interaction ...

ABSTRACT Background: Gastroenterological malignancies in 2012 were highest in incidence and mortality, globally, with 4 of the top 8, and 4 of the top 6 respectively, being from this system. Developing countries including ...

Background: The magnitude of astigmatism among adults is not only high but also has a wide variation worldwide. 12, 13, 33 The symptoms associated with morbidity of astigmatism pose many challenges in patient’s performance. ...

Background: Hyper-reactive malarial splenomegaly (HMS) is a syndrome of massive splenomegaly occurring in a malarious region. There is limited information about the prevalence in Tanzania overall and how these patients ...

The determination of the prevalence of nosocomial infections, associated risk factors, and the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of bacterial isolates among patients admitted to the intensive care uni t was carried ...

Background: Urological emergencies can cause morbidity and mortality. There are different forms of urological emergencies like: Acute urine retention, Priapism, Fournier’s gangrene, Penile fracture, Gross haematuria with ...

Introduction Amputation is a surgical operation by which the diseased or the injured limb or part of it is cut off. The disadvantage of amputation over other ablative surgery is that, the effects is immediately visible ...

Ninety eight cases of major congenital malformations seen in Dar es Salaam over a period of ten months are reported. The pattern of major oongenital malformations appears to be similar to that of other places. Three rare ...