Palliative care progress in Benin: a situation analysis using the WHO development indicators.

Context: Palliative care (PC) in most African countries remains under-assessed. Benin has piloted the implementation of a set of indicators proposed by the WHO to measure PC development.

Objectives: To examine the current status of PC in Benin.

Evaluation of augmented reality technology in global urologic surgery.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic drastically reduced opportunities for surgical skill sharing between high-income and low to middle-income countries. Augmented reality (AR) technology allows mentors in one country to virtually train a mentee in another country during surgical cases without international travel. We hypothesize that AR technology is an effective live surgical training and mentorship modality.

Prevalence and Factors Associated With Surgical Site Infections in the University Clinics of Traumatology and Urology of the National University Hospital Centre Hubert Koutoukou Maga in Cotonou.

Study the prevalence and factors associated with the occurrence of surgical site infections in University Clinics of Trauma-Orthopedics, Reconstructive Surgery and Urology in a developing country. This was a retrospective descriptive and analytical study of 384 people operated on during the period of 2019. Logistic regression was used to study the factors associated with surgical site infections.

[Tethered cord syndrome in children: about a case].

Tethered cord syndrome is a spectrum of neurological symptoms due to a constant or intermittent axial traction of the terminal cone of the spinal cord, fixed in abnormal caudal position. It is a rare congenital lesion whose symptoms can be observed only in adulthood. We report the case of a 10-year-old boy with tethered cord syndrome discovered due to bladder and anal incontinence and confirmed by lumbosacral magnetic resonance imaging.

Complete Bladder Duplication by a Transversal Septum With Pelvic Ectopic Kidney: A Case Report.

Bladder duplication is an unusual and congenital abnormality that is usually associated with other abnormalities. We reported the first case in a 16-year-old child who has complete bladder duplication by a tranversal septum. No duplication of the urethra was noted.