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Histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in the National Hospital, Abuja
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Intracranial tumours demonstrate characteristic diagnostic histopathological features. Our aims were to look at the histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in our environment including their age and sex distribution. METHODS: The histology request forms and slides of all...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6306972/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30602954 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v18i2.12 |
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author | Jibrin, Paul Ibebuike, Kaunda Ado-wanka, Aisha Nabila |
author_facet | Jibrin, Paul Ibebuike, Kaunda Ado-wanka, Aisha Nabila |
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description | BACKGROUND/AIMS: Intracranial tumours demonstrate characteristic diagnostic histopathological features. Our aims were to look at the histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in our environment including their age and sex distribution. METHODS: The histology request forms and slides of all intracranial specimens submitted to the histo-pathology department of National Hospital, Abuja, over an 11 year period (2005 and 2015) were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS: Intracranial specimens and intracranial tumours accounted for 0.6% and 0.5% respectively of all samples submitted. Meningiomas accounted for the most frequent diagnosis for all intracranial specimens and intracranial tumours at 35% and 41% respectively followed by pituitary adenoma at 19% and 22%, and astrocytoma at 13% and 20%. The male female ratio for all diagnoses was 1:1. The mean age at diagnosis was 35 ± 17.1 years. The frequency of intracranial tumours in children was 11.8% with a mean age of 8.3 ± 4.4 years and an equal sex distribution. In children, glioma and embryonal tumours were the most frequent diagnosis at 25%. CONCLUSION: The histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in our environment showed that meningioma is the most common intracranial tumour in adults, while glioma and embryonal tumours are the most common intracranial tumours in children. |
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spelling | pubmed-63069722019-01-02 Histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in the National Hospital, Abuja Jibrin, Paul Ibebuike, Kaunda Ado-wanka, Aisha Nabila Afr Health Sci Articles BACKGROUND/AIMS: Intracranial tumours demonstrate characteristic diagnostic histopathological features. Our aims were to look at the histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in our environment including their age and sex distribution. METHODS: The histology request forms and slides of all intracranial specimens submitted to the histo-pathology department of National Hospital, Abuja, over an 11 year period (2005 and 2015) were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS: Intracranial specimens and intracranial tumours accounted for 0.6% and 0.5% respectively of all samples submitted. Meningiomas accounted for the most frequent diagnosis for all intracranial specimens and intracranial tumours at 35% and 41% respectively followed by pituitary adenoma at 19% and 22%, and astrocytoma at 13% and 20%. The male female ratio for all diagnoses was 1:1. The mean age at diagnosis was 35 ± 17.1 years. The frequency of intracranial tumours in children was 11.8% with a mean age of 8.3 ± 4.4 years and an equal sex distribution. In children, glioma and embryonal tumours were the most frequent diagnosis at 25%. CONCLUSION: The histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in our environment showed that meningioma is the most common intracranial tumour in adults, while glioma and embryonal tumours are the most common intracranial tumours in children. Makerere Medical School 2018-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6306972/ /pubmed/30602954 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v18i2.12 Text en © 2018 Jibrin et al. Licensee African Health Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Jibrin, Paul Ibebuike, Kaunda Ado-wanka, Aisha Nabila Histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in the National Hospital, Abuja |
title | Histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in the National Hospital, Abuja |
title_full | Histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in the National Hospital, Abuja |
title_fullStr | Histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in the National Hospital, Abuja |
title_full_unstemmed | Histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in the National Hospital, Abuja |
title_short | Histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in the National Hospital, Abuja |
title_sort | histo-pathological pattern of intracranial tumours in the national hospital, abuja |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6306972/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30602954 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v18i2.12 |
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