https://hdl.handle.net/10646/2786 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:16:57 GMT 2026-04-09T18:16:57Z https://hdl.handle.net/10646/3513 Title: Not everything acid-fast is Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A case of Nocardia Authors: Bhagat, K.; Ibrahim, H.; Naik, K. Abstract: We report a case of a 47 year old woman who presented with a history of motor convulsions and a three month history of an increasingly painful and progressively enlarging mass on the right side of her back. Neurological examination revealed generalised wasting and a right sided hemiplegia. A biopsy of the mass was taken for microbiology which reported growing branching gram positive rods after three days of incubation. A mycological diagnosis of Nocardia asteroides was made. An MRI scan revealed extensive infiltration of the fungal mass into extending from the base of the skull to fifth cervical vertebra. Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10646/3513 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10646/3117 Title: Factors associated with tumour stage at presentation in invasive cervical cancer Authors: Ndlovu, N.; Kambarami, R. Abstract: Objective: The main objective of the study was to determine the demographic, social, clinical, laboratory and histologic factors associated with late stage presentation in cervical cancer. Design: A cross sectional study. Setting: Government tertiary referral institutions, Harare. Zimbabwe Study Population: One hundred consecutive cases of histology proven cervical cancer that presented Ku treatment between November 2001 and April 2002. Main Outcome Measures: The patients were categorized as early invasive cancer (stage 1 and 11) and late invasive cancer (stage III and IV). Results: The median age of the patients was 48 years (01=39 and Q3= 60). Eighty percent presented with late stage disease. Squamous cell carcinoma was the commonest histology (96%) with adenocarcinoma constituting only 4% of all tumours. Poorly differentiated tumour histology and no history of prior cervical cancer screening were found to be significantly associated with late tumour stage at presentation. The odds of presenting with late stage disease in women with a poorly differentiated tumour were 12.97 (95% Cl 2.03 to 82.55; p = .007), whilst the odds of late stage presentation in the absence of a history of screening were 11.13 (95% Cl 1.33 to 93.21; p = .026). Conclusions: Intrinsic tumour characteristics were the most important in this population in determining late stage at diagnosis and the value of screening was also highlighted by the results. The odds ratios had wide 95% confidence intervals, thus limiting their usefulness as point estimates. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10646/3117 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z