Background: Teledermatology has been widely deployed over the past decade in France, becoming an indispensable tool in daily practice. Pediatric dermatology is a subspecialty of dermatology limited to a small number of specialists. In 2013, the Argenteuil Hospital developed a structured store-and-forward (SAF) service that is particularly well-suited for the field of pediatric dermatology.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the case of a pregnant woman with listeriosis at 26 gestational weeks followed by premature labor at 30 gestational weeks. Bacterial meningitis was suspected in the neonate with ventriculitis on sonography, a high level of protein in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and an identified specific bacterial genome of Listeria monocytogenes (PCR 16S rDNA and sequencing and specific amplification of L. monocytogenes hly gene) in CSF.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Renal involvement is frequent in neonates with perinatal asphyxia. It is correlated with the severity of neurological damage and seems to worsen the long-term neurological outcome.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of renal failure after perinatal asphyxia, to precise the relationship between severity of cerebral damage and renal failure and to evaluate the place of renal damage in the short- and middle-term neurological outcome.
Aortic thrombosis is a rare and severe condition in neonates which often is revealed by ischemia of lower limbs. We report a case of major aortic thrombosis revealed by renal failure, hematuria and dehydration in a 10-day-old girl. Clinical features consisted in hypertension at upper limbs without ischemic signs of the lower limbs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntestinal metastases from bladder cancers are extremely rare and all of the cases reported in the international literature have concerned patients in whom the tumour was resected by open surgery. The authors report a unique case of obstructive intestinal metastases from a bladder cancer resected via the transurethral route and regularly followed by endoscopy and systematic biopsies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParietal endometriosis is a rare disease, for which the pathogenesis is still ill-known and the diagnosis frequently difficult. The author reports about two cases of endometriosis on cesarean scars and, in the light of the literature, sums up the elements of the diagnosis as well as the therapeutic course of action.
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May 1992
Idiopathic segmental infarction of the greater omentum is an unusual cause of acute abdomen. The preoperative diagnosis is difficult. Before laparotomy the diagnosis is hardly ever considered; the authors report a personal case and describe etiologic hypotheses and the clinical picture of this disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntestinal intussusception is a rare condition in adults, in whom it is caused by an organic lesion in 60% of all cases. On the basis of one case of ileocolic intussusception in a 64-year-old patient, the author reviews the literature and sums up the clinicopathological data, as well as the elements of the clinical diagnosis and, most importantly, of the radiological diagnosis for which enema with hydrosoluble contrast media is the method of choice. The treatment mainly consists in intestinal resection with anastomosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHernias through Winslow's hiatus are rare and give rise to serious diagnostic difficulties, hence the rarity of preoperative diagnoses. On the basis of one new exceptional case of hernia of the right colon, and in the light of the worldwide literature, we have summed up the main clinical and radiological signs of the condition, as well as the therapeutic strategy.
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