[The discharge coordinator nurse, the missing link in emergency departments].

The organisation of the discharge of patients from emergency departments is time-consuming and a source of stress. At Limoges general hospital, in order to improve the conditions in which patients are managed and to relieve some of the work of other professionals, a post of discharge coordinator nurse was created and has significantly reduced the malfunctions within the department.

Two outbreaks of botulism associated with consumption of green olive paste, France, September 2011.

Two family outbreaks of botulism (a total of nine cases) were identified in south-east and northern France in early September 2011. The source of infection was considered to be a ground green olive paste. Botulinum type A toxin was identified in seven cases and in the incriminated olive paste.

[Clinically occult invasive cancers of the breast. Apropos of 136 cases].

Between 1978 and 1991, one hundred and thirty-six surgical excision biopsies were performed in our institution for clinically occult breast cancers. A retrospective analysis of histopathologic characteristics was carried out in order to determine the prognostic factors of these cancers detected by mammography. Mammographic findings consisted of microcalcifications alone (49 cases), microcalcifications with opacity (20 cases), stellate opacity (52 cases) and well-circumscribed opacity (12 cases).