[Tolerance of mesh reinforcement inserted through vaginal approach for the cure of genital prolapses. A 317 continuous case study].

Objectives: To give the results of a prosthetic technique in genital prolapse surgery using a polypropylene mesh and study the complications and their treatment, mainly sexual discomfort.

Materials And Methods: A prospective study conducted over a 48-month-period in 317 patients. Surgery included fixing of an anterio-posterior mesh to the tendinous arc at the front and to the levator ani at the rear, after vaginal hysterectomy (in 75% of the cases).

[Gynecological and breast cancer in the department of Somme].

Background: Breast and gynecological tumors are the most common cancers in women. The aim of this study was to show the epidemiologic features of gynecological and breast cancers in the French administrative district of La Somme.

Methods: This study focused on the 1982-1999 period.

[Penile endoscopy: technique, results].

The authors report their experience based on 200 consecutive examinations. Peniscopy is an outpatient examination of the penis using a magnification system: commercial magnifying glass or colposcope. It consists of examining the whole penis in detail with the naked eue and then with a magnitification system after application of 5% acetic acid to the glans and prepuce in order to identify subclinical lesions.

[Possibilities and limitations of the acetic acid test in the identification of vulvar papillomavirus lesions. A colposcopic, histologic and virologic study].

42 subclinical HPV related vulvar lesions have been studied by Southern Blot Hybridization and histological samplings. 15 women had normal Pap smears. Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia was present in 24 other women, 15 of them had HPV on Southern Blots.