[Clostridium myonecrosis: a complication of inguinal hernia repair].

Clostridial myonecrosis is a necrotizing soft tissue infection characterized by muscular necrosis and, by extension, that of the surrounding tissue. If this infection develops quickly, it can cause septic shock and death if treatment is delayed. This infection does not occur frequently in civil medicine but nor is it exceptional after traumatic injuries or as a septic infection resulting from certain surgical interventions.

[Association of pheochromocytoma with contralateral nonfunctioning adrenal adenoma].

A 52-year-old woman complaining of abdominal pain, headaches and palpitations was admitted to our hospital for investigation of a bilateral adrenal tumor. Bilateral adrenalectomy was subsequently performed. The definitive diagnosis was right pheochromocytoma and left adrenocortical adenoma.