10 year old Akanimo Ekanem Needs Your Help!

Akanimo Ekanem, a 10-year old boy in year 8 at a private school in Ibadan, South-West Nigeria, and the first of two kids of his parents, developed abdominal pains in the last week of October. He was previously in a very good state of health.

In addition to the abdominal pains, he also reported difficulty passing stools despite the frequent urge to. An abdominal USS done 3 days after the onset of the pain revealed a mass in the pelvic region. A CT scan of the abdomen done the next day confirmed the mass which was thought to be malignant (cancerous) and also showed it caused obstruction to urinary outflow and compressed the rectum.

11 days after the onset of the pain he had a surgery to divert the stool passageway (colostomy) and some tissue from the tumour was sent for special (histopathology) tests. The bulk of the tumour was inoperable.

After the surgery he suffered a kidney failure but the doctors were able to manage this conservatively over a few days. His blood pressure rose significantly and the abdominal pain and distension worsened from intestinal obstruction. 8 days after the first surgery, he had a second surgery to relieve the cause of the intestinal obstruction.

Results from the pathology tests stated he had a rare type of cancer called Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumour.

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