External Validation of the SERC Trial Population: Comparison with the Multicenter French Cohort, the Swedish and SENOMIC Trial Populations for Breast Cancer Patients with Sentinel Node Micro-Metastasis.

Many trials confirmed the safety of omitting axillary dissection in the selected patients treated for early breast cancer. The external validity of these trials is questionable. Our study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the French population representativity in the SERC trial and the differences between these two populations as well as comparing the French and the Swedish populations (the SENOMIC trial population and the Swedish National Breast Cancer Registry (NKBC) cohort) of patients with sentinel node (SN) micro-metastasis.

[Microsurgical tubal desterilization: an efficient procedure. Evaluation of a 42 cases cohort according to Guzick's biparametric method].

Objective: Tubal ligation tends to be a contraceptive method used by younger women. Regrets may then become more frequent. Although less tough today, microsurgical tubal reversal is a reliable technique and we report results taking into account exposure time and curing rate.

[Impotence with venous leakage. An extensive study of 49 cases detected by the artificial erection test].

Fourty nine men seeking advice for erectile impotence, in whom the serum flow rate necessary to maintain an artificial erection (MFR) exceeded the upper limit of the normal range proposed by most authors (75 ml/mn), underwent different investigations (including a study of their penile arteries, Nocturnal Penile Tumescence monitoring (NPT) and a papaverine test) in order to ascertain the organic basis of their impotence, and to define the diagnostic criteria for "venous incompetence". Several other types of treatments were attempted. Two thirds of the patients were found to have occlusions of their sexual arteries, and these were severe in one third of cases.

[Malignant melanoma in children and adolescents. 8 cases].

Eight cases of malignant melanoma developed during childhood have been recorded over a 35-year period. Treatment and course of the disease were extremely variable. Melanomas developed on giant pigmented naevi had a particularly somber prognosis: death occurred within 6, 7 and 3 months respectively in the 3 cases observed.