Idiopathic non-familial rectal and colonic varices requiring sigmoidorectal resection and coloanal anastomosis.

A 32-year-old male patient presenting with huge varices involving the sigmoid colon and the entire rectum down to the dentate line is described. There was no familial history of gastrointestinal bleeding. No particular aetiology was identified.

[Exudative laryngeal diseases of Reinke's space].

Exudative laryngopathies are represented by the nodule, the polyp and the Reinke's oedema. Their origin is found in exudative processes located in the Reinke's space. Evolution towards one or another lesion depends on the etiological factor (vocal abuse, tobacco, alcohol, acute vocal fold trauma) and can happen according three modalities: oedema, fibrosis and angiectasies development.