Re: Neuro-ophthalmic and clinical characteristics of brain tumours in a tertiary hospital in Ghana
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2016-03
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Ghana Medical Journal
Abstract
The tumour frequencies quoted in the article are markedly
different from prior reports published from Ghana.
The prior published reports put Astrocytoma at 42%;
meningioma 19% and pituitary adenoma at 11%.1 This
poses a severe limitation on the article's results and conclusions
that pituitary adenoma and meningioma are the
commonest brain tumours as less than 50% of the pituitary
adenomas and only 30% of the meningiomas were
confirmed histologically.
The article states that only 13 out of a total of 36 brain
tumours that presented at the tertiary centre that has a
dedicated neurosurgical department (and a training program
for neurosurgical residents) were operated on during
a 12 month period. It is stated that only 13 of the
patients could afford surgery.
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Neuro-ophthalmic, brain tumours, Ghana, tertiary hospital