Tropical and geographical medicine

A 12-month prospective study of 120 consecutive hysterectomy and 12 myomectomy specimens received at the histopathology laboratory of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals was undertaken to determine the occurrence of adenomyosi…

Skin endometriosis is a rare condition. However, its recognition is important in the differential diagnosis of skin malignancy especially in black patients. To our knowledge, it has not been reported in the Sudan nor in Africa at large. We …

Out of the 85 malignancies of the uterus seen at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, in the past seven years, only seven were malignancies of the uterine body. Compared with reports by other authors, the incidence is low and…

In three and half years at the Ahmadu Bello University Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria, endometriosis was found in 27 Nigerians (all negroid) and one Caucasian. Age and parity distribution were similar to what has been found in patients elsewhere.…