[Traumatic jejuno-ileal ruptures: apropos of 18 cases at the Central Hospital of Yaounde].

Eighteen blunt small bowel traumas were reviewed in this retrospective study (1986-1996) concerning 12.8% of laparotomies for blunt abdominal trauma. The clinical presentation at admission was peritonitis (9 cases) or hemoperitoneum (4 cases) whereas 5 cases were diagnosed lately because of non specific signs at the beginning.

[Liver trauma: analysis of 42 cases in Yaounde].

Forty-two cases of liver trauma were reviewed at the Central Hospital of Yaounde between 1984 and 1994. The mean patient age was 22 years, the most commonly involved age group being between 20 and 35 years. Trauma was blunt in 24 cases (57.

[Primary abscess of the psoas. A common disease in tropical countries. Apropos of 87 cases].

Over a 4 years period, 87 cases of primary abscesses of the psoas were treated surgically at the Central Hospital in Yaoundé. The psoas muscle was involved in 10.17% of the cases with myositis.

[Voluminous ovarian cyst in children. Therapeutic strategy].

Ovarian cysts are rare in children but can sometimes become extremely large, leading to difficult therapeutic decisions. There is general agreement that the therapeutic attitude for benign serous cysts less than 5 cm in diameter includes echographic monitoring and possible echo-guided punction. For cysts larger than 5 cm, most authors favour cystectomy via the celioscopic route using either celio-surgery or mini-laparotomy.