[Perforation of the small intestine caused by endometriosis].

Endometriosis is rarely located on the small bowel. A case of small bowel perforation resulting from a stenosis due to endometriosis is reported. Pre-operative diagnosis of this type of lesion is most difficult in genetically active women since the clinical picture is a mixture of gynaecological and digestive disturbances.

[Diagnostic and therapeutic problems of aorto-enteric fistulas caused by aortic prostheses. 5 surgical cases of which 4 were successful].

The clinical characteristics, surgical treatment and therapeutic results, were surveyed in 5 cases of aorto-enteric fistulas observed in 650 abdominal aortic reconstructive operations in ten years. The fistula concerned the duodenum in two cases, the jejunum in one and the ileum in two cases. Two patients were treated by removal of the prosthesis and an axillofemoral bypass, one by an axillofemoral shunt only and the two others by repair of the graft.

[Cockett's syndrome and retro-iliac ureter. A previously unknown and original association apropos of a case and review of the literature].

The authors report a case of Cockett's syndrome discovered by ilio--cava angiography at a patient who was operated on a bilateral retro-iliac ureter which occasioned an important renal insufficiency. After a review of the literature, it appears it is the first case published with such a pathologic association mentioned.

[An unusual cause of hepatic abscess].

We report the case of a liver abscess resulting from the intra hepatic migration of a toothpick coming from the stomach.