Kids love to climb in trees – sometimes for fun, sometimes to get mangoes or other fruits. Often, a fall from a tree will give a kid a broken arm, but not this kid! This kid fell out of a tree, but went home without telling his family the story until the next day when […]
Ovarian Torsion & Benign Mature Cystic Teratoma
Heidi removes and ovarian cyst with torsion only to find something quite peculiar inside of it!
Burkitt’s Lymphoma Removal & Bowel Resection
Heidi removes a bowel obstructing mass from a 3 year old boy that turns out to be Burkitt’s Lymphoma.
Achilles Tendon Repair
A grass cutting teen gets his achilles tendon severed by a cutlass. Heidi uses the Krakow Method to repair it successfully.
Ruptured Appendicitis
Using ultrasound Heidi finds that a ruptured appendix is much more serious and an urgent operation is needed.
Eccrine Acrospiroma
Working here in Northern Ghana, I have seen conditions and tumors that I have never seen elsewhere. Sometimes, I have to refer patients to the larger teaching institutions for further investigations. Other times, I just have to approach a problem in a stepwise fashion until a conclusion is found. This case is a good example […]
The Boy Who Loved Jackalberries So Much That They Almost Killed Him
A kid has a major bowel obstruction caused by dozens of seeds from the swamp ebony tree fruit or diospyros mespiliformis.
Abdominal Tuberculosis
Heidi extracts a large ovarian cyst that appears to be cancerous. The actual diagnosis is a bit of a surprise.
Hand Tendon Injuries and Repair
From time to time I have patients come to me with deep lacerations to the hand which on further inspection reveal injuries to the tendons. This causes an inability to move their fingers as they should. Often the injury is caused by a knife or cutlass but it can also due to a moto accident.