Wandering spleen: Diagnosis and treatment.

Whether congenital or acquired, wandering spleen is a rare entity. In most cases, surgical treatment necessitates splenectomy, or even more rarely, particularly in children, splenopexy.

[Use of the rapid antigen detection test in group A streptococci pharyngitis diagnosis in Tunis, Tunisia].

The aims of this study were to determine the contribution of commercial rapid antigen detection test (RADT) in the rapid diagnosis of pharyngitis caused by group A streptococci. A total of 292 children with pharyngitis was included. A duplicate throat swabs was taken simultaneously from each patient.

[Children bronchiolitis: multicentric study in Tunis].

This study is made in the general framework of the basic health cares program set up by Tunis regional service to fight child serious respiratory infections. It has an objective to measure bronchiolitis winter frequency for patients aged from 1 to 36 months, serious cases frequency, changing profile, the therapeutic behavior and environmental risk factors. This is a multicentric transversal study in grappa, it has taken place in Tunis between January and march 1999 with a sample size of 1340 patients.