[Tendinopathy and fluoroquinolones].

Tendinopathies, essentially involving the Achilles tendon, which tendon rupture, can be secondary to treatment with fluoroquinolones, and facilitated by corticosteroid therapy, renal failure and sport. Fluoroquinolone treatment must therefore be prescribed cautiously and patients must be advised to stop treatment at the slightest warning signs of tendinitis.

[Intestinal urinary fistulas of renal and pelvis origin].

As the authors point out the uncommon occurrence of these fistulas between the calicopyelic cavities with the colon, the duodenum and still more unusually with the stomach and the jejunum, they report the etiological and clinical features found in the published cases. Usually the only solution is a nephrectomy.

[Uro-intestinal fistulas of cancerous origin].

Malignant entero-vesical fistulas are uncommon. Colonic malignancy is the main cause although fistula are present in just 1%. Pneumaturia and fecaluria are pathognomonic for entero-vesico-fistula and are present in half of cases.

[Prostatic or urethral rectal fistulas].

Reporting 7 new observations of prostatic or urethro-rectal fistulas, the authors insist on their etiological modalities specially of traumatical, inflammatory, post-irradiation, cancerous and congenital origin. The diagnosis methods and surgical techniques are also mentioned.