Highly sensitive and efficient computer-assisted system for routine surveillance for surgical site infection.

Objectives: Surveillance of surgical site infections (SSIs) is effective in reducing the rates of these complications, but it is extremely time-consuming and, consequently, underused. We determined the sensitivity and specificity of a computer-assisted surveillance system, compared with a conventional method involving review of medical records, and the time saved with the computer-assisted system.

Method: A prospective study was conducted from January 1 to December 31, 2001.

[Image guided drainage of pelvic fluid collections: results in 42 patients].

Purpose: To review the etiology, location, and morphology of pelvic collection as well as the technique and results of image guided drainage.

Materials And Methods: From June 1996 to August 2002, we performed image guided drainage of pelvic fluid collections in 21 males and 21 females. In patients where a direct contact between the collection and the endocavitary probe was present, the drainage was performed either by transrectal or transvaginal approach using 10F, 12F, 14F or 16F catheters according to the viscosity of the fluid.

[Struma ovarii or malignant ovarian goiter. A case].

Background: We report a case of follicular struma ovarii observed in an ovary teratoma without metastatic dissemination.

Case Report: A right ovarian tumor was discovered at ultrasound examination in a 31-year-old woman complaining of low abdominal pain. The patient underwent laparoscopic exploration and a 4-cm cystic mass of the right ovary was removed.

[Bisalbuminemia disclosing primary hyperparathyroidism with fistulized pancreatic false cyst].

Discovery on a protein electrophoregram of a bisalbuminemia can orientate according to its migration fast or slow to an hereditary mutation of an amino acid, or an acquired form by excess of beta lactamines due to renal insufficiency or by the rupture of a pancreatic pseudocyst in the peritoneum. This is this late mechanism that we report in this case of bisalbuminemia related to an opened pancreatic pseudocyst secondary to an adenoma of the parathyroid gland.