[Coverage for rheumatic diseases by Social Security].

Background: Lasted long disease relating to the rheumatology, constitutes a constant preoccupation because of its medical and economic repercussions.

Objective: To estimate the coverage of the long lasted disease in private sector at all levels and to compare it with that of public sector.

Methods: We report a retrospective study concerning 161 requests of coverage for long lasted disease in rheumatologic affections.

[Place of the functional treatment and the multidisciplinary approach in the treatment of occupational lower back injuries].

Background: The chronic affections of the rachis lumbar vertebra are a challenge for XXI-th century. Epidemiological observations have to incite us to think about new modalities of coverage.

Objective: The objective of our work is to discuss the place of the functional treatment in the coverage of occupational accidents lumbar vertebra (ATL) and to analyze new multidisciplinary therapeutic practices.

Malignant lymphoma of the tonsil in a patient with Behçet's disease.

Several connective tissue diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and polymyositis are associated with cancer. In contrast, cancer is rarely reported in patients with Behçet disease. We report a case of lymphoma during the course of Behçet disease.

[Medico-legal aspects of occupational lumbar back accidents. About 242 cases].

Industrial accidents causing lumbar back strain are frequent and are of major causes of absenteeism. For this purpose, we tried in this study to assess the prevalance of such accidents, to determine the circumstances of their occurence and to point out the various risk professions. For this, we analysed 242 files of lumbar back pathology industrial accidents related.

[Rheumatologic manifestations of parvovirus B19 infection].

Rheumatologic manifestations of parvovirus B19 infection is a recent individualization. They are rather frequent and varied and meet at the young adult's. Generally, it is responsible for acute, bilateral and symmetrical arthritis, usually involving distal joints and sometimes associated to signs caused by viral infections.

[Rheumatologic manifestations of hypothyroidism].

Rheumatologic manifestations are varied during the hypothyroidism. They can be articular, abarticular, muscular or osseous, consequences of an inappropriate hormonal secretion. Their diagnosis is easy when hypothyroidism is known, but they can be inaugural.

[Osteoporotic vertebral fracture with spinal cord compression].

Osteoporotic vertebral fractures with neurologic complications are rarely reported in the literature. We report a case of a 66-year-old woman who developed an osteoporotic fracture of T6 followed one month later by spinal cord compression without aseptic vertebral osteonecrosis. Diagnosis is based on magnetic resonance imaging and examination of vertebral biopsy specimens.

[Articular manifestations of adult Still's disease].

Adult onset Still's disease is a rare systemic disorder of unknown etiology occuring in young adults. The diagnosis is difficult and based upon Yamaguchi's criteria after exclusion of infectious diseases, hemotologic process or autoimmune diseases. Clinical manifestations are various.