Endoclose-assisted intracorporeal intestinal anastomosis.

While performing an intracorporeal intestinal anastomosis in minimally invasive procedures, surgeons may be encountered with many limitations which made many of them go back to doing extracorporeal anastomosis. In this article, we describe a simple but efficient technique using the Endoclose which improves the surgeon's ability to enhance the anastomosis' exposure while suturing, without having to add extra trocars.

Immediate postoperative pain does not predict pain at home after ambulatory single-port sleeve gastrectomy.

Purpose: Single-port sleeve gastrectomy (SPSG) is increasingly performed in an ambulatory setting. Pain intensity when returning home remains a problem. The challenge is to be able to predict the evolution of postoperative pain (POP) at home by using parameters collected during the hospital stay.

Predictors of discharge timing and unplanned readmission after laparoscopic liver resection.

Background: The aim of the study was to determine the predictors of discharge timing and 90-day unplanned readmission after laparoscopic liver resection (LLR).

Methods: Consecutive LLR performed at the "Institut Mutualiste Montsouris" between 2000 and 2019 were retrieved from a prospectively maintained database. Length of stay (LOS) was stratified according to surgical difficulty and was categorized as early (LOS<25th percentile), routine (25th percentile<75th percentile), and delayed discharge otherwise.

Treatment of pre-eruptive intracoronal resorption: A scoping review.

Aim: Pre-eruptive intra-coronal resorption (PEIR) is a rare condition that can affect children's dentition. Showing the same aspect of dental caries, these lesions are diagnosed in non-erupted teeth. The aetiology is not yet defined and no consensus on their treatment is available.

Pancreatic mucinous cystadenoma doubly complicated by acute pancreatitis and retroperitoneal rupture.

Mucinous cystadenomas are the most frequent cystic benign tumors of the pancreas. They are characterized by a malignant potential. Acute pancreatitis is their most common complication.

A strangled hernia through the Winslow's hiatus: about a rare situation.

Winslow's hiatus hernia is the rarest of the internal hernias. Its diagnosis is difficult and requires an urgent laparotomy to avoid necrosis of the incarcerated loop or even the death of the patient. We report the case of a patient operated urgently for acute intestinal obstruction caused by a strangled hernia through the Winslow's hiatus.

Adult's congenital bile duct cysts.

Introduction: Congenital bile duct cysts (CBDC) is a rare congenital malformation. It results from an anomaly of the biliopancreatic junction (AJBP). This condition is often diagnosed at a young age.

[A bilateral and symmetric anatomic variation of a lombrical muscle causing a trigger finger].

Trigger finger is a very common disease. The vast majority of trigger fingers are primary idiopathic trigger fingers. We report the case of a bilateral and symmetric triggering of the fifth finger secondary to an anatomical variation of the lumbrical muscle.

[An exceptional localization of an intraosseous haemangioma].

The intraosseous capillary haemangioma is classified as a benign vascular bone tumor. It is extremely rare in the hand. We present the case of a carpometacarpal capillary haemangioma involving the capitate and the bases of third and fourth metacarpals.

[Median nerve entrapment after fracture dislocation of the elbow: a two-cases report].

The median nerve entrapment after elbow-dislocation is rare. We report two cases of fracture dislocation elbow completed by entrapment of median nerve occurred after reduction in two children. For both cases, the diagnosis of entrapment was made some months later after injury.

[Attitudes of teachers to tobacco smoking].

We aimed to evaluate the attitudes of teachers to tobacco smoking in Kalaa Kebira (a semi-urban region in the Tunisian Sahel). Data from 358 of 402 teachers surveyed were obtained using a self-completed questionnaire. The mean age of the teachers was 35.

[Tobacco use among teachers in a district of the Tunisian Sahel].

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the scale of tobacco use among teachers in the district of Kalaa Kebira (a semi-urban region in the Tunisian Sahel).

Methods: The study design was descriptive and cross sectional, employing a self administered questionnaire given to 402 teachers.

Results: The response rate was 89%.

[Behaviours and needs for health of secondary-school-adolescents in Sousse (Tunisia)].

It was a descriptive study bearing on a probabilistic sample of one-degree cluster composed of 685 adolescents studying in six secondary state schools in Sousse, during 1998-1999 school year. The facts had been collected through an anonymous and self administrated questionnaire. 23.

[Attitudes of general practitioners to pharmaceutical sales representatives in Sousse].

The therapeutic knowledge of physicians is the corner stone to the rational use of medicines; however information about medicines is generally obtained from the pharmaceutical industry via their sales representatives (reps). We aimed to identify general practitioners' (GPs) attitudes to pharmaceutical reps and the information they provide. We surveyed 140 GPs using a self-administered questionnaire.

Effectiveness of patient education on glycemic control in insulin treated patients in general practice.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of a patient education program on diabetes control.

Methods: A pre-test post-test pre experimental study was performed with 87 insulin treated diabetic patients followed in the chronic disease unit of Kelibia district (Nabeul, Tunisia). Subjects received education in 6 monthly sessions.

[Tracking of cardiovascular risk factors among school children: a four-year population surveillance in Susa, Tunisia].

In order to confirm the phenomenon of tracking of cardiovascular risk factors among school children, we undertook in 2003, a prospective survey of a population of 789 pupils aged 13 to 15 years who had participated in a first investigation on cardiovascular risk factors in 1999. We were able to follow and study 453 pupils (57.4% of the initial population).

[Adolescents' expectations with regard to school health services in Sfax, Tunisia].

Adolescent health poses new kinds of problems which are difficult to handle and solve through traditional school health centres and structures. In order to identify the expectations of adolescents with respect to their health centres, an epidemiological survey was carried out by means of a self-administered questionnaire to a representative sample of 625 high school students in Sfax, Tunisia. The principle results demonstrated that 54% of those questioned were not satisfied with the available services offered by their school health centres.

[Victims of violence in urban secondary schools in Sousse (Tunisia)].

Most often epidemiologic studies of violence during adolescence focus on aspects related to the perpetrator. The adolescent victims of violence are certainly at least as numerous, but too little is known about them. Our aim was to estimate the extent of this social phenomenon and to identify its various forms, through a descriptive, cross-sectional study of a sample of 685 teenagers (409 girls and 276 boys) from six public high schools in Sousse in 1999.