[Scoliosis, spondylolysis and lumbosacral spondylolisthesis. A study of their association apropos of 82 cases in children and adolescents].

The authors have reviewed the charts of 82 patients who presented the association of a scoliosis and a spondylolisthesis. They insist upon the necessity to treat each abnormality for itself. 26 patients have been simply followed in the clinic, they required no treatment because of the modicity of the scoliosis and the spondylolisthesis.

[Multiple pterygium syndrome in children. 7 cases].

Seven children have been observed and treated for a multiple pterygia syndrome. The characteristics of this affection which is rare and mostly transmitted as an autosomal recessive, are: a growth retardation, a facial dysmorphia, pterygia resulting in flexion deformities, and anomalies of hands, feet and external genitale. But the severity of the syndrome is linked with the spine malformation, whose fusions produce severe and precocious deformities.

[Syringomyelia and scoliosis in children and adolescents. Apropos of 14 cases].

The authors report their experience of 14 cases of scoliosis in children or young adults in association with syringomyelia. The neurological lesion was discovered at a variable time during the development of the scoliosis which may appear to be idiopathic for several years. There were 11 cases of syringomyelia or hydromyelia and three intramedullary tumours with cyst formation.

[Surgical treatment of scoliosis of 100 degrees and greater in children and adolescents (neurological and myopathic scoliosis excluded). Apropos of a series of 66 cases].

In a retrospective study the authors had compared the results obtained in two series of identical scoliosis. All were examined after a two year minimal follow-up. Group A.

[Primary bone tumors of the spine in children. Apropos of 66 cases].

Primary tumours of the spine in children are infrequent. The authors have studied 60 benign and 6 malignant tumours in 4 orthopaedic centres. These tumours have been diagnosed in 3 different ways - in the study of cord compression, as a finding in the course of a previously known disease, or as an isolated tumour.