[The results of laparoscopic treatment of the gallbladder lithiasis. About 500 cases].

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is at present the gold standard treatment of gallbladder lithiasis.

Aim: Assesment of Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Methods: Through a retrospective series of 500 laparoscopic cholecystectomies during a period going from January 1996 to March 2000, we tried to evaluate our experience by comparing our results to the literature data.

Results: There were 420 women and 80 men with a sex ratio of 0.

[Retro-peritoneal liposarcoma. About 5 cases and revue of literature].

Liposarcomas are malignant mesenchymatous tumors developed from elements constituting the greasy tissue in various stages of differentiation. It is one of the most frequent mesenchymatous sarcomas. Retro-peritoneum is a privileged site of development in 12 to 15% of cases.

[Pyogenic liver abscesses: a study of 25 cases].

Objective: Our aim was to study the anatomo-clinic particularities and the therapeutic modes of the infectious abscesses of the liver.

Patients And Methods: Our retrospective study concerns 25 cases of the infectious abscesses of the liver collected on one period of 12 years from January 1992 to December 2003. They are 11 primitive abscesses and 14 secondary abscesses.

[Anastomotic ulcer after vagotomy for duodenal ulcer].

Between January 1981 and December 2000, 2609 patient underwent surgery for duodenal ulcer. 2274 underwent isolated vagotomy; 1590 had vagotomy associated with GI anastomosis. Only relapses of anostomic ulcers after vagotomy associated with gastrojejunal anastomosis were included in this study.

[Duodeno-pancreatic trauma. About 14 cases].

Through a series of 14 cases brought over a period of 12 years, we realized a retrospective, analytical and descriptive study of these traumatisms. We aimed to release recommendations to improve their management. It was 2 women and 12 men, whom mean age was 24.

[Mucus secreting tumors of the appendix. Report of 22 cases].

The retrospective study presented in this article was realized on a series of 22 cases of mucus secreting tumor of the appendix compiled among 8373 appendicectomies. The clinical picture was dominated by an appendiceal syndrome (73%). The diagnosis was made pre or peroperatively in 10 cases and it was only with to the systematic anatomopathologic exam that 12 other cases were discovered.

[Intestinal Crohn disease: surgical aspects and predictive factors of risk of relapse. About 26 cases].

Crohn disease is an inflammatory bowel disease of which one cannot declare itself healed. It is a considerably invalidating disease, and surgery is necessary with more than 80% of patients during its long evolution. After a recent review of the literature, we wanted to contribute to the study of the predictive factors of risk of relapse among 26 patients operated for an intestinal Crohn disease during a period of 16 years, from 1986 till 2001.