[Arterial risks in celiosurgery].

It is important to recognize exceptional vascular events in celiosurgery because of their gravity. Most occur during pneumoperitoneal manoeuvres using a Palmer needle and rarely at the insertion of the first trocar. We performed a tomodensitometric study in 200 subjects free of abdominal pathology in order to determine the distance from the umbilicus to the aortic bifurcation, their projection over the spine and the superficial relations of the large vessels to the cutaneous umbilical cover.

[Metastasis of breast cancer in frontal meningioma].

The authors report a case of metastasis from a breast cancer located in a frontal meningioma. A review of the literature revealed 43 cases of primary intracranial tumours containing a secondary from an unrelated extracranial primary malignant tumour; in 34 of these cases the intracranial tumour invaded was a meningioma.