[Future of coelioscopy tappings of ovarien cysts (author's transl)].

In a study of 136 tapping of ovarien cysts carried out in the surgical departement of Broca Hospital from 1968 to 1971, the authors point out the diagnostic interest of such a practice, which is harmeless if the contra-indications are respected and often easily carried out (tapping needle by Mintz). The macroscopic and cytological aspect of the liquid tapped enable one to make a precise diagnostic in almost all cases and to lead the therapy in the proper direction.

[Chronic suppuration of the breast].

We have found a series of 14 cases of chronic suppuration of the breast in 10 years in the Surgical and Gynaecological Clinic of the Salpêtrière Hospital. The symptomatology at the outset is usually innocuous, showing itself as a tumour that appears either gradually or suddenly. Diagnosis is not difficult and is usually solved by tapping the tumour.