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Involvement of the central nervous system is a rare complication of schistosomiasis. A case is reported which manifested as a granulomatous, transverse myelitis in a 13-month-old child. Removal of the granuloma resulted in return of motor function.
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Schistosomiasis/complications , Spinal Cord Diseases/etiology , Eosinophilia/etiology , Granuloma/etiology , Humans , Infant , Kenya , Male , Myelitis, Transverse/etiology , Schistosoma mansoni/isolation & purification , Schistosomiasis/parasitology , Spinal Cord Diseases/parasitologyABSTRACT
Although strategic planning is now a familiar process for most hospitals, the probable impact of new technology on the hospital and society is frequently overlooked. This technology is transforming medicine into a quantitative science and is providing a multitude of new information. Effective management of this information is vital to continued quality medical care. This article addresses the impact of new technologies not as an individual event but as an influence on the health care community and society as a whole.
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Information Systems/organization & administration , Medical Laboratory Science/trends , Planning Techniques , Diffusion of Innovation , Hospitals , United StatesSubject(s)
Orchitis/epidemiology , Testicular Hydrocele/epidemiology , Testicular Neoplasms/epidemiology , Adult , Aged , Humans , Kenya , Male , Middle AgedSubject(s)
Trichinellosis/epidemiology , Humans , Kenya , Male , Middle Aged , Trichinellosis/pathologyABSTRACT
Over a 9-year period 40 testicular and paratesticular neoplasms were seen at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. Their incidence rate was 0.08 per annum per 100,000 Kenyan males. This low incidence was largely accounted for by a decrease in tumors of germ cell origin. The proportional distribution of the testicular neoplasms, however, was not significantly different from findings in the United States. An inheritable factor apparently controls the decreased susceptability to testicular neoplasms.