[Multinodular hepatic angioma: a rare cause of neonatal asystole. A case and review of the literature].

The clinical findings in a case with a diffuse multinodular type of angioma of the liver are reported. The clinical picture was typical: the appearance after the first week of a severe congestive failure mimicking a congenital heart disorder, of the left to right shunt type, with gross hepatomegaly of the "vascular" type with a systolo-diastolic murmur, but with no cutaneous evidence of angioma. The very severe prognosis during the first months of life of patients with this malformation, as illustrated by the 58 deaths out of the 78 cases reported in the literature, indicated ligature of the hepatic artery before the age of one month.

Cytogenetic investigations on lymphocytes from workers exposed to vinyl chloride.

Eleven male workers from the polymerization department of a vinyl chloride factory, seven people employed in the laboratory of another vinyl chloride plant, and ten controls from outside the factory environment were examined for the presence of chromosome aberrations in blood lymphocytes. Chromosome anomalies such as fragments, rings, translocations, and dicentrics were observed in most of the workers from the polymerization department. However, the medical history of these workers shows that they received frequent radiographs of the hands, feet, vertebral column, and digestive tract.

[Study of the association between aortic coarctation and congenital mitral insufficiency (excluding atrioventricular canals)].

Coarctation of the aorta is accompanied by congenital mitral incompetence in 3% of cases, and this combination worsens the prognosis. A series of 23 cases is reported, and the treatment analysed. In 6 cases only medical treatment was used, either because death was rapid or, on the contrary, satisfactory progress made it possible to wait for the normal age for resection and suture of the coarctation.

Sex differences in Necturus urinary bladders.

We describe morphological sex differences in urinary bladders of the urodele amphibian Necturus maculosus. The mucosal epithelial cells of bladders from males were tall and contained considerable PAS-positive material. In scanning electron micrographs of the mucosal surface, epithelial cells from male bladders were well demarcated and were capped with microplicae or with long cilia.

[15 new serotypes of Salmonella of subgenus I isolated in Africa].

Filteen new serotypes of Salmonella belonging to the sub-genus I have been isolated in Africa. Isolated in Ivory Coast: S. dabou (8,20:Z4,Z23,l,W), S.

Effects of peptide hormone structure on H+ secretion by Necturus gastric mucosa.

The actions of human synthetic gastrin I(G), the C-terminal tetrapeptide of gastrin (T), and the C-terminal octapeptide of cholecystokinin (OP) on acid secretion and transepithelial potential difference (PD) of the isolated Necturus gastric mucosa were determined. All three peptides induced H+ secretion, but the maximum H+ output was less with OP than with G or T. G and OP produced their maximum H+ output at lower molar concentrations than T.