Editorial

Akinoso Olujimi Coker Overseas Surgical Fellowship Group-Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland

Help with overseas surgical training
Trop Doct 39(2): 65; doi:10.1258/td.2009.090011 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review Article

Mahreen Ameen

Managing mycetomas
Trop Doct 39(2): 66—68; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080151 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Articles

Arshad Zafar, Sajjad Ahmad, and Johar Ali Ansari

Office haemorrhoidectomy with local anaesthesia: a feasible day-case procedure
Trop Doct 39(2): 69—70; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080128 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ana Rodrigues Falbo, João Guilherme Bezerra Alves, Malaquias Batista Filho, Maria de Fátima Costa Caminha, and José Eulálio Cabral-Filho

Decline in hospital mortality rate after the use of the World Health Organization protocol for management of severe malnutrition
Trop Doct 39(2): 71—72; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Henning Mothes, Georg Chagaluka, Denis Chiwewe, Martin Malunga, Biswick Mwatibu, Torsten Wilhelm, and Utz Settmacher

Do patients in rural Malawi benefit from upper gastrointestinal endoscopy?
Trop Doct 39(2): 73—76; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080142 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Vitor Laerte Pinto, Jr, Marco Antonio Lima, Valéria Cavalcanti Rolla, Maria Cristina Rebelo, and Marcio Neves Bóia

Atypical cerebrospinal fluid profile in tuberculous meningitis
Trop Doct 39(2): 76—78; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080242 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

W I Beadles, A Jahn, R Weigel, and D Clutterbuck

Peripheral neuropathy in HIV-positive patients at an antiretroviral clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi
Trop Doct 39(2): 78—80; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080213 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

I I Onah and I C Okwesili

Presentation of trauma at the National Orthopaedic Hospital Enugu: a pilot study
Trop Doct 39(2): 80—83; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080084 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Luísa Castro and Luciano Z Goldani

Iron, folate and vitamin B12 parameters in HIV-1 infected patients with anaemia in southern Brazil
Trop Doct 39(2): 83—85; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080069 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yilmaz Gunes, Mustafa Tuncer, Unal Guntekin, Serkan Akdag, Hasan Ali Gumrukcuoglu, Mustafa Karahocagil, and Hasan Ekim

Clinical characteristics and outcome of Brucella endocarditis
Trop Doct 39(2): 85—88; doi:10.1258/td.2008.070436 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nasser Janmohammadi and Mohammad Reza Hasanjani Roushan

False negative serological tests may lead to misdiagnosis and mismanagement in osteoarticular brucellosis
Trop Doct 39(2): 88—90; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080042 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Terna I Nomhwange and Christopher JM Whitty

Diagnosis of malaria in children's outpatient departments in Abuja, Nigeria
Trop Doct 39(2): 90—92; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080200 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Methods and Devices

E R Ezeome, S O Ekenze, F Ugwumba, C E Nwajiobi, and O Coker

Surgical training in resource-limited countries: moving from the body to the bench – experiences from the basic surgical skills workshop in Enugu, Nigeria
Trop Doct 39(2): 93—97; doi:10.1258/td.2009.080422 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

K Bowa, B Bvulani, and L Mukonge

The use of Foley's catheter in the removal of a coin in the oesophagus
Trop Doct 39(2): 97—98; doi:10.1258/td.2008.070466 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Short Reports

Cristina M R Magalhães, Patricia A C Vasconcelos, Marne R Pereira, Natália R M Alves, Lenora Gandolfi, and Riccardo Pratesi

Kawasaki disease: a clinical and epidemiological study of 70 children in Brazil
Trop Doct 39(2): 99—101; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080124 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

A Salinas, A Puerta, J Olmedo, E Martínez, JJ Blanch, F Mateos, and I Tárraga

Acalculous cholecystitis in a patient with Plasmodium falciparum infection after a trip to the Dominican Republic
Trop Doct 39(2): 101—102; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080241 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrea Sylvia Winkler, Philipp Mosser, and Erich Schmutzhard

Neurological disorders in rural Africa: a systematic approach
Trop Doct 39(2): 102—104; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080144 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Mohammad Farooq Butt, Shabir Ahmad Dhar, Naseem Ul Gani, and Altaf A Kawoosa

Complications of paediatric elbow trauma treatment by traditional bonesetters
Trop Doct 39(2): 104—107; doi:10.1258/td.2008.070383 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hasan Naz, Nevil Aykin, Figen Cevik, and Cengiz Bal

Brucellosis in central Anatolia: evaluation of complications and relapse
Trop Doct 39(2): 107—109; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080063 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jyotsna Agarwal, Shally Awasthi, Anuradha Rajput, Manoj Tiwari, and Amita Jain

Atypical bacterial pathogens in community-acquired pneumonia in children: a hospital-based study
Trop Doct 39(2): 109—111; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080248 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Case Series and Case Reports

Chandrasekar Palaniswamy, Uma Kumar, Dhana Rekha Selvaraj, Bimlesh Pandey, Rohini Handa, Narendra Kumar Alappan, and Hanish Sharma

Tuberculous mycotic aneurysm of aortic root: an unusual cause of cardiac tamponade
Trop Doct 39(2): 112—113; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080199 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kana Ram Jat, R K Marwaha, Inusha Panigrahi, and Kunal Gupta

Ascariasis-associated worm encephalopathy in a young child
Trop Doct 39(2): 113—114; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080244 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S Rajpal, S Dwivedi, and SC Chaudhary

Disseminated cryptococcosis in an HIV-negative patient
Trop Doct 39(2): 114—115; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080249 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Monica Matlani, Anita Chakravarti, Ashish Rawal, Bineeta Kashyap, and A Gurtoo

Dengue encephalitis: an entity now common in dengue-prone regions
Trop Doct 39(2): 115—116; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080257 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James Ker

Endomyocardial fibrosis: an enigmatic cause for a giant left atrium
Trop Doct 39(2): 116—118; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080281 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Akintunde Oladipo George and Paul Ofori-Atta

Total knee replacement – the evolving sub-Saharan experience
Trop Doct 39(2): 118—123; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080139 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Naveen Mohandas, R Balasubramanian, and Shiva BN Prasad

Can brucella endocarditis be treated successfully with medical therapy alone?
Trop Doct 39(2): 123—124; doi:10.1258/td.2008.070446 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Selçuk Kaya and Özgür Sayil

Psoas abscess due to brucellosis
Trop Doct 39(2): 124—127; doi:10.1258/td.2008.070447 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jane David, Preeti Shanbag, and Vaishali More

Plasmodium vivax malaria presenting as the nephrotic syndrome in an infant
Trop Doct 39(2): 127—128; doi:10.1258/td.2008.080288 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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