[Intensive care management of patients with severe head traumatism in Benin from 1998 to 2002].

Objective: To study in Cotonou (Benin) in tropical environment, the specific problems of severe head injury.

Study Design: Five years retrospective study in Cotonou University National and Teaching Hospital.

Patients And Methods: All patients admitted with severe head injury between January 1998 and December 2002 were included.

[[Case report of acute intoxication from intravenous injection of petroleum] ].

A 18-year-old patient injected intravenously 2.5 mL of paraffin oil into the right upper limb. It caused a local thrombophlebitis with a slow evolution.

[A case of acute pyrimethamine poisoning].

Intoxication by pyrimethamine is rare compare to these of patients who ingest a massive dose of amino-4-quinoleine. Clinic manifestations can be delayed and they are specially based on haematologic disorder as shown by literature data. Others organs can be concerned.

[Version by internal maneuvers: alternative to cesarean section under precarious conditions. The experience of the University Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics].

Obstetrics practised in African University Hospitals is beset with specific constraints. The emergency admission of a woman whose fetus is dead or severely compromised, after an extended labor and an obvious ovular infection, leads to fear an hysterotomy as well as an hysterectomy. The authors specify, under their work conditions, the indications of internal version maneuvers, from 50 cases collected in one year.