Vol 24 No 2 (2019) | East and Central African Journal of Surgery

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Published: 2019-10-21

Perspective

Improving access to hearing care services and professionals in Africa through task sharing: The Malawian experience

Wakisa Mulwafu, Johannes Fagan

78-81
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Original Research

Acute postoperative pain management at a tertiary hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A prospective cross-sectional study

Fitsum Argaw, Tekleberhan Berhe, Seyoum Assefa, Alula M. Teklu

82-88
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Prevalence and factors associated with anastomotic leakage among surgical patients at 2 teaching hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Daniel Zemenfes, Esayas Tamirat

89-93
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Acute pancreatitis at a tertiary hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A 4-year retrospective study

Amanuel Dansa, Berhanu Kotisso

94-100
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Lower gastrointestinal bleeding at a referral hospital in Kigali, Rwanda: Clinical, colonoscopic and pathologic profiles

I. Sibomana, I. Niyongombwa, V. Dusabejambo, A. Kiswezi

101-104
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Gastric cancer features and outcomes at a tertiary teaching hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A 5-year retrospective study

Hailu W. Gebresillasse, Girmaye Tamrat, Tewodros Abule

105-109
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Surgical outcomes of living kidney donors at a nascent transplant center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Engida Abebe, Mahteme Bekele, Teklebirhan Berehe, Mekdim Tadese, Kenneth J. Woodside, Momina Ahmed, Alan B. Leichtman, Faski Tedela, Mersema Abate, Berhanu Worku, Seyfemichael Getachew, Leja Hamza, `, Lina Mohamed, Wubishet Jote, Seyum Assefa, Zerihun Abebe, Wendimagegn Gezahegn, Berhane Redae, Jeffery D. Punch

110-115
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Functional outcomes of patients following emergency neurosurgical interventions for traumatic brain injury performed by general surgeons at rural hospital in Ethiopia

Ebenezer Gezahegn, Andrew Chew

116-123
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Risk factors for mortality among hospitalised adult burn patients in a Malawian tertiary hospital burns unit

Stephen Kasenda, Donnie Mategula, Geoffrey E. Manda, Tilinde K. Chokotho

124-132
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Assessment of the impact of the new paediatric surgery unit and the COSECSA training programme at Mbarara Hospital, Uganda

Anne W. Shikanda, Martin S. Situma

133-139
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Recurrence of orofacial tumours and tumour-like lesions after ablative surgery: A 15-year retrospective review of 27 cases

Charles E. Anyanechi

140-145
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Case Reports

An atypical case of a massive extra-articular pigmented villonodular synovitis

Ankit Dave, Assad Mughal

146-149
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Prune belly syndrome: A rare congenital malformation in a 6-year-old Ugandan male

Francis Kayinda, Geoffrey Sekimwanyi

150-153
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Excisional biopsy and radiotherapy as definitive treatment for ulcerative invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the penis

Abubakar S. Muhammad, I. Hassan, U. Muhammad

154-157
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