Kinesiophobia among health professionals' interventions: a scoping review.

Health professionals are regularly confronted with patients suffering from a fear of movement-related pain (unknown as kinesiophobia). The fear-avoidance attitudes and beliefs of healthcare professionals are likely to play a key role in their patients' therapeutic approach. However, kinesiophobia among health professionals is a relatively young topic.

[The African and Malagasy Council for higher education: objectives and programs].

The African and Malgach Council for University Education is an inter-african institution. The anthors remind its organisation and show its aim and basic programms: recognition and equivalence of the degrees--teaching of the traditional medication--establishment of inter-african comettees--organisation of concors for associated professors in laws and medicine.

[Surgery of insulinomas using an artificial pancreas].

The risks of failure of conventional treatment of insulinomas should be reduced, it seems, when the surgical operation is carried out using an artificial pancreas. The Biostator, used with feed back controlled glucose infusion in 32 cases of which two personal effectively allows one firstly to operate in complete security since it is programmed to maintain a pre-determined glycaemia during the various stages of the operation; it also allows one to put into evidence an occult tumour in a segment rendered suspect due to the sudden hypoglycaemia observed during its mobilisation; it finally allows one by the appearance of a post-excision hyperglycaemia peak to find out whether the procedure has been complete.

[Pheochromocytoma and its diagnostic pitfalls].

A sixty-year-old man experienced successively over two years several episodes of circulatory collapse and meningeal hemorrhage, a myocardial infarction, an episode of ketoacidosis and a seizure before acute abdominal pain with fever related to the sudden, partial, necrosis of his tumor, led to the discovery of a pheochromocytoma. This observation exemplifies the multiple clinical aspects and diagnostic pitfalls of this secreting tumor. It underscores the misleading nature of normotensive pheochromocytomas.

[Pelvic-peritoneal recurrences after amputation of the rectum for cancer. Report of 23 cases (author's transl)].

Of 79 patients surviving after amputation of the rectum for cancer, local and regional recurrences occurred in 23 cases, in 3 out of 4 of these during the 2-year period following operation. Only 3 patients survived. This illustrates the frequency and serious nature of these recurrent lesions.

[Statistical analysis of results of operative treatment of 223 cases of left colon cancer (author's transl)].

Statistical analysis of results of 223 operations for left colon cancer over a period of ten years is presented. The patients (age, condition), and the clinical expression (urgent or cold surgery) are discussed. The authors then give the lesions a sort of identity card of macroscopic findings (topography, local extension, invasion of glands, metastatic spread) to enable interpretation of the long-term survival results as a function of each parameter.

[Foetal pancreas implants in an insulin-dependent patient. Technique and clinical results (author's transl)].

Fragments of foetal pancreatic buds taken before the 10th week of gestation, stored at - 196 degrees C and cultivated on artificial media were implanted in an adult, insulin-dependent diabetic patient. Following a 2 weeks latent period, the clinical symptoms of diabetes regressed within 2 months, although all insulin treatment had been withdrawn. These results have now been maintained for 11 months, but major overloads in carbohydrates are imperfectly controlled.

[Abrikossof tumor in the esophagus].

Among the benign tumours of the oesophagus, the discovery of an Abrikossof tumour is exceptional. Although modern methods of investigation now permit recognition of this tumour and suspect its benign nature, only histology permits one to determine its precise nature, either by biopsy or by frozen section. Histogenetically, the schwann cell and histiocytic theories are not completely incompatible to the extent that they are considered from the point of view of general pathology, where there is evidence in favour of the mesoectodermic origin of the granular cell myoblastomas.

[Breakdown of the anastomosis after colectomy. The causes and prevention (author's transl)].

Over a period of 3 years the authors have carried out 184 colectomies with immediate restoration of continuity. In 25 of these operated patients the sutures broke down, i.e.