[Thrombosis and cancer: Awareness of private practitioners and patients in Poitou-Charentes, a French region].

Objective: The purpose of this study was to enhance awareness among healthcare professionals about the application of guidelines relating to the management of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in cancer patients.

Methods: This collective approach involved: the Regional Health Agency (ARS), the Unions of Representatives of Healthcare Professionals (URPS), the Observatory of Drugs, the Medical Devices and Therapeutic Innovation agency (OMEDIT), the regional Oncology Network and specialist physicians. Performance indicators were defined to evaluate the actions performed.

[Total rectal prolapse in children. Diagnostic and therapeutic trends. Statistics apropos of 52 cases].

Rectal procidentia represents classically only 2% of rectal prolapse in children. This rarity is more apparent than real, because peritoneographies showing the excess of migration of the rectogenital pouch, allows to diagnose more often this pathology. The normal trend of this anomaly of the infant and the young child even if it could be serious with strangulation is usually a spontaneous healing.

[Anatomic basis of the Lockhart-Mummery procedure in the treatment of total rectal prolapse in children].

From four pelvic cavities of adults (2 males and 2 females) and one of neonate the authors studies structures between rectum ventrally and sacrum dorsally. Always they found an avascular space behind the perirectal fascia in which were embedded arteries of rectum and above the presacral fascia with inside median sacral artery and sympathic trunks. This avascular space permit to made there surgically procedures such Lockart-Mummery to attach rectum to sacrum.