[Urethral diseases in children at surgical departments of the Cotonou Hospital. Apropos of 77 cases].

Over a 6-year period in the surgical departments of Cotonou hospital, urethral diseases in children represented 20% of all infantile urological diseases and essentially consisted of urethral strictures (26 cases), hypospadias (22 cases), posterior urethral valves (12 cases), prolapsed urethral mucosa, the only disease observed in girls (9 cases). These diseases generally do not raise any diagnostic problems, but the real problem concerns follow-up of these children, who are usually lost to follow-up after discharge.

[Injuries of the external male genital organs. Apropos of 20 cases].

The authors report 20 cases of trauma of the male external genital organs observed over a 10-year period, due to various causes, particularly road accidents, domestic quarrels, and self-mutilation. Lesions of the testis and its appendages were frequent and treatment was usually surgical.

[Buschke-Loewenstein tumor. Apropos of 2 cases in Cotonou, Benin].

About two cases of Buschke-Loewenstein tumor--one of the penis in man infected with HIV and another of perianal area-, the authors insist on the relative frequency of Buschke-Loewenstein tumor in non-circumcised and homosexual groups. They emphasize the continuous precancerous spectrum of Buschke-Loewenstein tumor.

[Urinary calculi in the Surgical Departments of the National Hospital Center and the University of Cotonou].

The authors review renal stone disease in the National University Hospital of Cotonou on the basis of 109 cases observed over a period of 18 years. The mean frequency was 6.11 cases per year with a marked male predominance (sex ratio of 3.