[Boerhaave's syndrome and pleural tuberculosis].

Introduction: Boerhaave's syndrome is a rare condition involving spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus. The diagnosis is difficult and the prognosis depends on early diagnosis and treatment.

Case Report: We report a case of spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus in a 70-year-old woman where the diagnosis was delayed.

[Filling of the thymic space after chemotherapy for ovarian cancer].

Introduction: Enlargement of the thymus following remission of a cancer treated by chemotherapy poses a problem of differential diagnosis between benign thymic hyperplasia and relapse of a mediastinal tumour.

Case Report: We report the case of a thymic tumour developing 6 months after chemotherapy for ovarian cancer in a woman of 31 years. Because of the risk of a mediastinal recurrence, the patient was submitted to thymectomy by mediastinotomy.