[Predictors of success among first-year medical students at the University of Parakou].

Introduction: Several factors including grades obtained in the Baccalaureate can influence academic performance of first year medical students. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between results achieved by students taking Baccalaureate exam and student academic success during the first year of medical school.

Methods: We conducted an analytical study that included the whole number of students regularly enrolled in their first year of medical school at the university of Parakou in the academic year 2010-2011.

The exploratory burr hole: indication and results at one departmental hospital of benin.

Objective. The aim of this study was to describe the indications and results of exploratory burr hole performed at the Departmental Teaching Hospital of Borgou (Benin). Methods.

Simultaneous gastric band removal and sleeve gastrectomy: a comparison with front-line sleeve gastrectomy.

The placement of a gastric band (GB) prior to a sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) would increase postoperative complications, whether it is withdrawn or not at the time of the LSG. The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate and compare postoperative morbidity and outcome weight for simultaneous GB removal (RGB) and LSG (the RGB + LSG group) and front-line LSG only (the LSG group) after unsuccessful GB. From May 2005 to May 2009, 305 patients underwent first- or second-line LSG at Amiens University Hospital.

[Clinical and radio-anatomical aspects of traumatic brain injuries after road crash at one hospital, Benin].

Background: Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) represent one major cause of death worldwide. The young people are most concerned and road crash is the first etiology.

Aim: To establish the frequency, clinical, and radio-anatomical sides of TBI after road crash.

Surgical management of head trauma: problems, results, and perspectives at the departmental teaching hospital of Borgou, Benin.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to report our neurosurgical experience with traumatic brain injury (TBI) at a departmental teaching hospital in Benin.

Methods: This was a descriptive study performed from January 2008 to June 2010. It concerned patients who received surgical treatment after a brain trauma.