[Prolactinomas in Yaounde: analytical study of 36 consecutive cases followed in the internal medicine department of the Yaounde Hospital from 1990 to 1996].

We analysed the epidemiological, clinical, biological, morphological and therapeutic characteristics of 36 cases of pituitary prolactinomas in Yaoundé, Cameroun. Diagnosis was made on the basis of neuro-ophthalmological, gynaecological and sexual symptoms associated with quantity determinations of prolactinemia, total testosterone and blood oestrogen, folliculo stimulating hormone and luteining hormone. Expected levels of prolactinemia are above 150 micrograms/l.

Microalbuminuria and retinopathy in a diabetic population of Cameroon.

Microalbuminuria and retinopathy was studied in a non-proteinuric diabetic population of Cameroon. Patients were enrolled on a consecutive basis in two referral hospitals in Yaoundé. Retinopathy was evaluated by direct ophthalmoscopy and biomicroscopy, and controlled by mydriatic fundus photography.

A population-based study of xerophthalmia in the extreme North Province of Cameroon, West Africa.

Objective: To obtain cross-sectional data on clinical and nutritional vitamin A deficiency from which to design appropriate intervention strategies.

Design: A population-based survey using multistage, cluster sampling.

Setting: Extreme North Province of Cameroon, West Africa.