Medico-legal investigations of the Airbus, A320 crash upon Mount Ste-Odile, France.

The authors present the medico-legal investigations and identification after the aircrash of the Airbus A320 upon the Mount Sainte-Odile (France). The identification team comprising investigators from the gendarmerie, forensic pathologists, odontologists, and scientists of the Institute from Legal Medecine rapidly retrieved and identified 85 of the 87 victims, with 17 being identified through DNA typing, three through fingerprints and the remaining through dental records and specific physical or X-ray findings. Full autopsies were performed on all fatalities to determine patterns of injury and cause of death.

[Adenocarcinoma developing from an ileal diverticulum. Apropos of a case].

The rare case is reported of a cylindrical cell epithelioma developing in the base of an ileal diverticulum. This infrequent association was further complicated by the fact that the patient was in the early stages of Kahler's disease. After presentation of the case the literature on ileojejunal adenocarcinoma associated with small intestine diverticula is reviewed.

[10-year follow-up of a homogeneous series of 467 total hip prostheses of the Charnley-Müller type. Study of 167 cases].

Four hundred and sixty-seven hips were operated upon by the authors between 1969 and 1974 using the Charnley-Müller prosthesis. 167 were reviewed with more than a ten-year follow-up. Eighty-one per cent were satisfactory after the initial procedure.