[Pseudomyxoma of the peritoneum. Apropos of 4 cases].

Peritoneal pseudomyxoma is a rare disease (400 published cases). In 60% of all cases, an ovarian tumor is the cause of the disease. The second cause is appendicular mucocele.

[Clinico-immunological profile of hepatic and extrahepatic diseases accompanied by anti-mitochondrial antibodies].

In a 13 year retrospective study mitochondrial antibodies were found in 1.71 p. 100 of patients about 60 years old with a strong female predominance.

[Surgical treatment of Crohn disease of the colon. (38 cases) (author's transl)].

From 1959 to december 1972 thirty-eight patients out of sixty having Crohn disease of the colon alone or with ileal and/or rectal involvement were operated upon. We had four post-operative deaths and one a long time after the intervention, but in relation with the initial Crohn disease. These thirty-eight patients had sixty-seven operations.

[Medical mangement of Crohn's disease (author's transl)].

Medical management of Crohn's disease is above all symptomatic. According to the severeness of the case, treatment varies and may be simple (regimen, antidiarrheic agents and sulfamid drugs) or more sophisticated (continous parenteral alimentation). Sulfamids and antibiotics have a definite although temporary action.