Board Member Age Diversity and Financial Performance of Manufacturing Firms: A Developing Economy Perspective

This paper examines the relationship between board member age diversity and financial performance of manufacturing firms in Uganda. A cross section survey research design was employed using 78 manufacturing firms across the country. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics, chi-square analysis and point bi-serial correlation. The results showed that majority of the boards had members with an average age of 35-44years, followed by 25-34 years. In addition, boards comprising of majorly young board members registered low performance level, compared to the boards comprising of majorly older members. Further, the results indicated that board member age diversity is significantly associated with financial performance of manufacturing firms. Like any other research study, this study is limited in the following ways. Since only a single research methodological approach was employed, future research could undertake a mixed approach and triangulate to validate the current findings. Further, a longitudinal approach should be employed to study financial performance trends among manufacturing firms over years. Finally, board member age diversity was studied and by virtual of the results, there are other factors that explain the financial performance of the Uganda’s manufacturing sector that were not part of this study

Metastatic lung cancer presenting as thoracic empyema: A Case report

Increased cancer risk in patients with inflammatory and infectious diseases has been reported in many studies and lung cancer\u2010associated empyema in <0.3% patients. We present a patient with empyema in whom the final diagnosis was metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. Purulent pleural fluid obtained by drainage or thoracentesis must always been examined because the association of malignant tumors and empyema should be taken into consideration

Pneumomediastinum after a swimming race and dental extraction

A 16-year-old male competitive swimmer presented with dyspnea, chest pain, and right neck crepitus after a race. He had undergone an uncomplicated lower right third molar tooth extraction 2 days earlier. He had no known allergies. On examination, he was alert, well-perfused, and afebrile. The peritoneal signs were negative. A chest radiograph showed subcutaneous emphysema with pneumomediastinum. Computed tomography showed submandibular, neck, and mediastinal emphysema (Figure 1). Conservative therapy based on observation and prophylactic parenteral administration of antibiotics (clindamycin 450\u2009mg every 6\u2009h and ceftriaxone 2\u2009g daily for 10 days) was successfully adopted, and he was discharged after 3 days

Unexpected thymoma in a challenging case of hyperparathyroidism

We report the case of a woman with primary hyperparathyroidism suspected of mediastinal ectopic parathyroid adenoma revealed to be a thymoma. Our aim was to focus on some possible criticisms in distinguishing between ectopic parathyroid and thymus