[Adjuvant treatment of patients with neoplastic lesions using the combination of a vitamin complex and an amino acid. Apropos of a series of 17 cases of epidermoid carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract].

The aim of the work reported here was to evaluate the effects of an adjuvant treatment composed of an association of vitamins with an amino acid: beta-alanine, in cancer patients. This adjuvant therapy has been given to 17 subjects with a squamous cell carcinoma of upper aerodigestive tract treated by radiotherapy most cases were T3 (according to the TNM-UICC). After a 63 months follow-up, 7 patients are alive and sterilized, 4 are alive but no sterilized, 2 died, 4 were excluded from the study.

[Modalities and delays in the resoration of consciousness after brain injury].

We studied the modalities and delays of restructuring of consciousness in a series of 89 consecutive survival cases, ranging over a large variety of age and severity and leading to any degree of awareness and results. We used the Glasgow coma scale, the study of brain-stem reflexes, and the Glasgow outcome scale. The recovery of awareness (eye opening to pain and fronto-orbicular reflex) was obtained mainly on the 9th day, with a limited variance.