Gunshot injury to chest
60 year old male Presentation:Gunshot to back HPC:Patient with no known chronic illnesses was well until about 8 hours prior to presentation(around 12:30am) when he was allegedly shot from a long range (from one end of a school park) by…
Acute intestinal obstruction
We present a patient who experienced classic symptoms of acute intestinal obstruction. He attempted to relieve the symptoms by swallowing a mixture of herbs and cowrie. This undoubtedly worsened his symptoms and he was finally brought to the…
70 year old with intestinal obstruction
We present a 70 year old woman with colicky abdominal pains, vomiting, fever and failure to pass stools in 48 hours. Patient is a known hypertensive on her usual medications and was apparently well until the aforementioned complaints. This was…
Eviscerated perforated hernia in an HIV/AIDS patient
We present a 35 year old male HIV/AIDS patient on ARVs who presented to our hospital with several months duration of incarcerated left inguinoscrotal hernia . scrotal contents eviscerated whilst at home . Patient did not seek medical attention. He…
Tumour of the left lobe of the liver in AIDS patient
fig1 fig2 fig3 fig4 fig5 fig6 Newly diagnosed retroviral infection patient with tumour of the left lobe of the liver . Patient presented with severe pains duestretching of the Gleason capsule and the weight of…
Right femoral hernia and Saphena varix coexisting same patient
fig1 fig2 fig3 72 year old woman hypertensive with right ventricular insufficiency presented to the hopsital with right groin swelling of several months duration. apart from occasional discomfort felt in the groin she had no obstructive symptions an…
Basal cell carcinoma in a diabetic -hypertensive
fig1 fig2 fig3 Basal cell carcinoma in an elderly DM/HPT 88 year old man, a diabetic hypertensive presented to our facility with a raised lesion on the left cheek of…
Advanced breast cancer in a male
55 year old man presented at the breast clinic of KATH , Kumasi with one year duration of painless right breast mass. The mass has been slowly but progressively increasing in size over the period. He has no other…
Breast cancer screening, making a case for aggressive active surveillance
Breast cancer has received a lot of publicity in Ghana since it became a public health issue. Much has been done to get people to use simple techniques such as breast self examination to detect lesions and report to hospital….
Presacral abscess in an elderly man
85 year old man presented at the ER with progressive deterioration of general health,inability to walk in the past few months, mostly confined to bed in last few weeks. He has severe lower back pain, no radiation to the leg….