Biomedical subjects

A Bellow

Publications and source records attributed to A Bellow.

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PubMed1996

[Spinal diseases in a rheumatology hospital unit in Lomé (Togo)].

A retrospective study was conducted to determine the different kinds of spinal diseases in patients attending the rheumatology unit of Lomé hospital, Togo. Among the 4927 patients seen over a 5-year period, 1966 (40%) had spinal involvement. The disease observed were as follows: degenerative spinal disorders: 1872 cases (95%); infectious discitis: 41 cas (2.1%); spondyloarthropathies: 33 cases (1.8%); tumors: 20 cases (1.1%). Degenerative spinal involvement affected mainly lumbar and cervical spine. The only unusual clinical feature was that Schober's index was often normal. Lumbar spinal stenosis was common (233 cases, 12.4%), especially in females, and occurred at an earlier age than in the Western world. Ankylosing spondylitis features included mildness of extra-articular manifestations and an often negative family history. Pott's disease was de leading cause of infectious discitis. The present study suggests that spinal disorders are as frequent in Africa as in Western countries.

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PubMed1992

[Degenerative spinal disease in an outpatient clinic in Lomé (Togo)].

A survey was conducted to determine the frequency and semiological characteristics of degenerative spinal disease in patients attending a hospital rheumatology outpatient clinic in Lomé, Togo. Seven hundred and one of the 1,821 patients seen over a two-year period had degenerative spinal disease. Spinal disease included lower back pain (n = 385), lumbar and radicular pain suggestive of disk protrusion (n = 137), lumbar and radicular pain with claudication suggestive of stenosis of the spinal canal (n = 42), dorsal pain (n = 24), cervical pain (n = 68) and cervical and brachial pain (n = 45). Clinical patterns were similar to those seen in Western countries. However, lumbar and radicular pain with claudication suggestive of stenosis of the spinal canal occurred at a younger age and mainly affected females. These data are in contrast with previous studies suggesting that lumbar and radicular pain due to disk protrusion and stenosis of the spinal canal are uncommon in Black Africa.

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PubMed1976

On vector-valued asymptotic martingales.

In contrast to the vector-valued martingale which converges strongly almost everywhere if and only if the Banach space E has the Radon-Nikodym property, the vector-valued asymptotic martingale converges strongly almost everywhere if and only if E is of finite dimension.

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