[Concurrent concentrated radio-chemotherapy of epidermoid cancer of the esophagus. Long-term results of a phase II national multicenter trial in 122 non-operable patients (FFCD 8803)].

Objectives: Concomitant radiochemotherapy improves survival from inoperable esophageal cancer compared to radiotherapy alone. Several regimens of radiotherapy (standard or concentrated split course radiotherapy) are used, however the optimum protocol remains to be determined. The aim of this study was to analyze the efficacy and tolerance of concentrated concomitant split course radiochemotherapy.

Chlamydia trachomatis peritonitis: another cause of protein-rich lymphocytic ascites.

Ascites as a main feature of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in two young women was successfully treated with doxycycline. In both patients, ascitic fluid protein levels and lymphocyte counts were very high. This report, as well as six previously published cases, suggest that ascitic fluid culture for C.