[Contribution of cardiac CT in the management of congenital heart disease : experience of the Abidjan cardiology institute in 27 cases].

Introduction And Objectives: In contrast to developed countries, cardiac CT is not widely used in West Africa for the assessment of congenital heart disease, and has only recently been introduced in Côte d'Ivoire. The lack of data prompted this study, the aim of which was to describe our experience of the contribution of CT to the management of congenital heart disease in the Ivorian cardiology setting.

Patients And Method: This was a prospective study which took place in the pediatric cardiology department over a period of 9 months (September 2022 to June 2023) which included all patients with congenital heart disease explored by echocardiography and cardiac scan.

Tuberculosis of the temporomandibular joint.

Introduction: Extrapulmonary and extra-spinal tuberculosis (TB) is rare, even in countries where the disease is endemic. Ten percent of these localizations are cervico-facial. Involvement of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is very unusual.

[Diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of parotid tumors in the Maxillofacial Surgery Department of the University Hospital Center in Treichville, Abidjan].

Introduction: Taking charge of parotid tumors in an African setting is difficult because of the weakness of the technical, delayed consultation, treatment of traditional healers, tumor volume, secondary infection and ulceration of some of them.

Objective: Identify the epidemiological, clinical, evolutive and therapeutic in order to propose an adapted scheme to the management of these tumors in our African conditions.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective study of 38 patients with parotid tumors operated and hospitalized in the department of stomatology and maxillofacial surgery university hospital of Treichville (Abidjan), during the period from January 2005 to December 2009 included, so a period of 5 years.

[Diagnostic and surgical approach to an hourglass-shaped nasopalatine glioma in an infant].

The authors report a case of glioma nasopalatine Multifoil in wallet, location-intra nasal and palatal left. The nasal glioma is a rare congenital malformation presenting as a nasal mass composed of neuroglial tissue heteropias resulting from an abnormality in embryonic development. It is a benign tumor that fits into the nosology of the masses of the midline.