[Pulmonary tuberculosis and diabetes. A retrospective study of 60 patients in Tunisia].

Background: Tuberculosis is a frequent infectious disease in Tunisia. The estimated case rate is 22.3 per 100,000 inhabitants.

[Last discovery of a congenital broncho-oeso-phageal fistula].

Background: Broncho-oesophageal fistula is rare and occurs mostly in acquired condition.

Aim: Report of a new case.

Case: We report a case of a 58-years-old woman which has, since 38 years ago, a chronic cough, recurrent bronchopulmonary suppurations and hemoptysis.

Vertebral tuberculosis revealed by thoracic manifestations. A study of five cases.

Background: Spine is the most frequent location of bone tuberculosis, which can seldom be revealed by thoracic manifestations.

Methods: In a seven-years retrospective study, we reported radioclinical manifestations revealing Pott's disease, methods of diagnosis and the treatment outcome.

Results: Five non immunocompromised female patients were hospitalized between 1997 and 2003 in Clinical Department of Pulmonary Diseases in Abderrahmane Mami Hospital Ariana Tunisia, for thoracic manifestations that led to the diagnosis of Pott's disease, which represents 4.

[Fortuitous discovery of hydatid cyst of the breast].

Introduction: Hydatid cyst of the breast is rare even in areas of endemic echinococcosis. It accounts for 0.3% of all localizations and 2% of the uncommon sites.

[Asthma in the elderly].

Asthma in elderly is actually well individualized. Two entities are considered: Ageing asthmatics" who have had asthma since childhood, adolescence or adulthood and persisting after 65 years old. This situation is the most frequent.

[Tracheobronchial foreign bodies. Diagnostic and therapeutic aspects in children].

In this retrospective study, the authors reviewed 31 cases of tracheobronchial foreign body in children ranging in age from one to 15 years, recruited in Ariana hospital since 1987. 74% of the patients were male, and only 26% were less than 3 years old. The foreign body is mostly revealed by a radio-clinical presentation of a feverish bronchopneumonia (32%); children were referred to the hospital within 15.