Correlation between qualitative and semi-quantitative ultrasound assessment of diffuse fatty liver disease: A case-control study.

Objective: To study the relationship between qualitative and semi-quantitative assessment of diffuse liver steatosis in ultrasound.

Patients And Methods: This was a case-control study, conducted in the Campus University Hospital Centre of Lome (Togo) over a 3-month period. It included 40 patients showing ultrasonographic signs of diffuse hepatic steatosis and 40 volunteers (healthy) whose echostructure and echogenicity of the hepatic parenchyma were normal.

[Torsion of wandering spleen: a case report in the Kara University Hospital (Togo)].

Wandering spleen is a rare pathology. Spleen infarction which results from the torsion of the pedicle is its main complication. We report a case of torsion of a wandering spleen diagnosed by computed tomography.

[Emphysematous cholecystitis: a case study].

The emphysematous cholecystitis is a rare pathological entity which has to be recognized early in order to quickly administer the most suitable treatment and to avoid septic shock then death. We report the case of an acute emphysematous diagnosed by computed tomography with a positive prognostic due to antibiotherapy and cholecystectomy.