[Thymic neuroendocrine tumor: about a case and review of the literature].

Thymic neuroendocrine tumors (TNET) are rare, with little-known prognosis. This study aims to report a case of TNET and to highlight the diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties in low-resource settings. A 60-year-old man presented with chest pain, greasy cough and recent weight loss.

First results of hormone receptors' status in Malagasy women with invasive breast cancer.

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common malignancy tumor amongst Malagasy women registered at the pathology unit of the "Institut Pasteur de Madagascar". In Madagascar, there is no laboratory practicing hormone receptors' status on these tumors. Until now no study about hormone receptors' status of Malagasy women with invasive breast cancer was performed.

[Botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma of the urogenital sinus. Apropos of 1 case in an 11 month old child].

Rhabdomyosarcomas are the most common sarcomas of the soft tissues found in children under 15 years. The reported observation is of a vaginal tumour having developed in an eleven-month-year-old little girl. It was a typical botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma, usually found in the hollow organs surrounded on the edges by mucus.