[Treatment of leprotic neuritis. Exclusive medical treatment or combined with decompression].

The authors consider the evolution of the treatment of leprotic neuritis based on homogenous series of numerous observations (a minimum of 250-300). These observations are well registered and documented with some results dimensioned by the classical A. L.

[Abdominal forms of Castleman's disease].

Two cases of Castleman's disease (angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia) with abdominal localisation are reported. The first case was a mesenteric localisation with compressive symptoms in a sixty year-old patient; its histological type was hyalino-vascular; the evolution was favorable one year later following cobaltherapy; but ultimately pathological examination of a peripheral lymph node led to the discovery of a malignant nodular lymphoma of the follicular center cell type. The second case involved the retroperitoneal space with multiple lymph nodes and IgA dysglobulinemia in a 49 year-old patient; its evolution was favorable as judged six months after surgical resection.

[Surgical approach to the so-called infectious perforations of the small intestine in Africa south of the Sahara (author's transl)].

Non traumatic perforations are frequent in Africa South of the Sahara and most often due to salmonellosis. From 50 cases recorded in Dakar, the authors study the main problems raised by diagnosis (specially in non reactive peritonitis requiring iterative controls), surgical tactic and procedure, and intensive care. In 86 p.

[Drepanocytic osseous infections (osteitis and osteomyelitis) (author's transl)].

Osseous infections have a special importance among the various polymorphic osteoarticular troubles of drepanocytemia. From 92 cases, the authors emphasize 4 points: --Osteitis and osteomyelitis are frequent, specially in the homozygotic form. --Salmonellae are the prevailing pathogenic bacterias.

[Drepanocytic osseous complications: dystrophia and osteonecrosis (author's transl)].

Osseous troubles are the most frequent and earliest signs of drepanocytemia. They are due to the bone dystrophia observed in any chronic hemolytic anemia, to aseptic infarcts and to bacterial infections. These syndromes are described according to age and localizations, and proper surgical tactics are proposed.