Unusual intra-tracheal migration of a corrosive esophageal foreign body.

: intra-tracheal migration of esophageal foreign body is very uncommon and dangerous. It is most often caused by a vulnerable foreign body accidentally swallowed. We report the first observation of intra-tracheal migration of corrosive battery in our practice, with review of the literature.

The Seckel syndrome: A case observed in the pediatric department of the University Hospital Center Sourou Sanou (Burkina Faso).

Seckel syndrome-1 or "bird-headed dwarfism", Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man number 210600, is a rare genetic disease with an autosomal recessive transmission. We report a female child of 56 months diagnosed with SCKL1 at the Pediatric department of the University Hospital Center Sourou Sanou, Burkina Faso. She showed the typical features including facial dysmorphism, dwarfism, microcephalus and mental retardation.

Facial Fracture-Associated Blindness.

Introduction: Yet uncommon, blindness is a potential associated injury of facial fractures.

Methods: Epidemiology, mechanisms, fracture types, and outcome of facial fractures-associated blindness in a 10-year period are retrospectively reviewed.

Results: Out of 907 facial fractures patients, 10 had blindness, giving a frequency of 1.

Wire internal fixation: an obsolete, yet valuable method for surgical management of facial fractures.

In some developing countries wire is still widely used in facial fractures internal fixation. This study presents the effectiveness and complications of wire osteosynthesis in a university teaching hospital in Burkina Faso and discusses some of its other benefits and disadvantages. Notes of 227 patients with facial fractures treated by wire internal fixation at department of stomatology and maxillofacial surgery of CHU Souro Sanou, Burkina Faso between 2006 and 2010 are reviewed retrospectively.