[Gamna Gandy bodies: Features mimicking a mycotic disease. Two cases in the spleen].

We report the clinical and histopathological features of 2 cases of Gamna-Gandy bodies located in the spleen. The diagnosis was made by the presence of circumscribed nodules containing dark brown rod-shaped and "bamboo-shaped" fibrotic structures. These structures were positive with Perls and von Kossa staining.

Maxillary African histoplasmosis: unusual diagnostic problems of an unusual presentation.

Among bone lesions of African histoplasmosis, those affecting the jaw are relatively rare and concern, with other facial involvements, particularly infants and adolescent patients with an usual uncompromised immunologic status. As clinical and radiologic features are not specific, the differential diagnosis to other mandibular diseases is difficult. We report on a case of African histoplasmosis that involved the right mandibula of a 17-year-old Congolese boy with a persistent and fungiform cutaneous ulceration.

[Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in Brazzaville, Congo. A situation analysis].

Objective: To collect epidemiological data about Cervical Intra epithelial Neoplasia in Brazzaville, for planning strategic issues of a cancer screening programme in the Congo.

Methods: Retrospective study of the results of 5700 occasional cervical Pap smears.

Results: The majority of the recorded women were 21 to 30 years old (49%), with a single or multiple parity (83.