A Mbakop's research while affiliated with University of Geneva and other places

Publications (2)

Article
A 28-week male fetus with the cardinal signs of the lethal multiple pterygium syndrome (multiple pterygia, congenital joint contractures, lung hypoplasia, facial abnormalities, and hydrops) is reported here. In addition, he had hydranencephaly, an anomaly not yet reported in this group of conditions. This potentially new form of the lethal multiple...
Article
Over a 12-year period (1971-1983), 6868 prostatic biopsies were received and examined at the Department of Pathology, Geneva. 53 (0.77%) presented with non-caseous granulomatous prostatitis. This lesion was associated with nodular prostatic hyperplasia in 38 cases (71.5%) and with prostatic carcinoma in one case (2%), and occurred alone in 14 cases...

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... The frequency of NSGP is very low and varies from 0.36% to 3.4% of all histologically investigated materials of the prostate gland. [4,21] Our results show that the frequency of NSGP among all examined prostatic specimens is 0.38%. NSGP usually occurs in patients between 18 and 70 years of age (mean age between 62 and 65). ...
... Since its first description, only 69 patients have been reported on the basis of clinical, histological and/or molecular criteria. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] The vast majority of previously described cases ended with voluntary termination of pregnancy. Thus, the disorder was previously considered to be prenatally lethal, 9 until Kvarnung et al in 2016 reported two siblings who survived beyond the neonatal period. ...