[Quality of life of adolescents surviving childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia].

Purpose: To evaluate how adolescents and young adults cured of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treated during childhood have integrated the disease, and possible death related to cancer. Particularly, we have focused on experiences related to diagnosis announcement, hospitalisation and treatments and consequences on their social, psychological and somatic behaviour.

Patients: Forty-one patients cured of ALL have been enrolled in the study and answered one interview with clinical psychologist or research nurse.

[Early diagnosis and treatment of cytomegalovirus polyradiculoneuritis in a child infected by HIV].

Background: Axonal polyradiculopathy due to cytomegalovirus (CMV) in AIDS has been reported in adults but it is not well documented in children.

Objective: We describe the elements of diagnosis and the outcome after anti-CMV therapy in a pediatric case.

Case Report: A 11-year-old boy with post-transfusional AIDS and low CD4 count (< 50/mm3) suffered from bilateral leg pain and weakness progressing within 15 days to paraplegia and cauda equina syndrome.

[Craniopharyngioma. A relatively uncommon etiology for an amenorrhea at the age of 45. Apropos of a case].

In reference to a case of secondary, pseudomenopausal amenorrhea, due to a craniopharyngioma discovered late, the need for a complete hypothalamo-hypophyseal exploration of every secondary, non-uterine, normogonadotrophic amenorrhea is reminded. The semiological value of the titration of serum prolactin and hypophyseal tests in lesions which are not only hypophyseal but also hypothalamic, is emphasized. In conclusion, the determining diagnostic contribution of tomodensitometry in tumors of this region is presented.