[Myofibroblastic tumor of the great omentum].

Background: Myofibroblastic tumors are a spindle cell lesion of indeterminate malignant potential. Abdominal location was rare.

Aim: We report a case of an unusual location of myofibroblastic tumors in the great omuntum.

Squamous cell carcinoma arising in Verneuil's disease.

Background: Verneuil's disease or hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic suppurative, and cicatricial inflammatory disease, mainly affecting apocrine-bearing area of the skin. Squamous cell carcinoma is an uncommon but a frightening complication of hidradenitis suppurativa.

Aim: To report a new case of squamous cell carcinoma arising in Verneuil's disease.

[Idiopathic renal vein thrombosis. About two cases].

Renal vein thrombosis is a rare pathology difficult to diagnose. It has quite various clinical expressions and biological consequences. The diagnosis is based upon radiologic explorations.

[Predictive factors of morbidity and mortality after surgery in the elderly].

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to determine prognostic factors of post operative morbidity and mortality for patients aged 80 years and older. We compared two groups of patients aged 80 and over operated to determine predictive factors of morbidity and mortality: group of patients who presented post operative complication within 30 days after surgery and group of patients without any complication. Comparison of the two groups for global morbidity using univariate analysis showed only one prognostic factor: surgery of diabetic foot (p = 0.

[Acute pancreatitis due to lupus].

Among digestive clinical presentations of systemic lupus erythematosus, acute pancreatitis remains a serious affection with very poor prognosis. To date, pathogenesis is still unclear. We report two cases of fatal acute pancreatitis related to systemic lupus erythematosus.

Trauma of an ectopic kidney. A case report.

Ectopic kidney is a rare pathology. It is usually misknown and often revealed by a complication. We report a case of a 30-year-old male patient who presented in emergency with a right thoraco-abdominal trauma and a benign head trauma.

[Small bowel neurofibromatosis in Von Recklinghausen's disease. A rare cause of emergency surgery].

Two cases of small bowel neurofibromatosis in patients with Von Recklinghausen's disease are reported. Diagnosis of small bowel neurofibromatosis was made on the occasion of a complication for the two cases. We insist on the difficulty of diagnosis as well as in presence or not of complications.

Neuroendocrine tumours of the digestive tract report of two cases and literature review.

Neuroendocrine tumors (NET) of the digestive system are rare. They comprise only 1% of all the tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. The aim of this study is to report two cases of exceptional localization of non secretary neuroendocrine tumors.

[Stomach perforation: an unusual complication of gastric bezoars].

Bezoars are concretions of stagnant swallowed material in digestive tract. The most frequent are trichobezoars made of hair and phytobezoars composed of undigestible fruits and vegetables fibers. We report a case of a 24-year-old female patient who presented in emergency with an acute peritonitis due to a gastric perforation on bezoars.

[Acute cytomegalovirus colitis after bone marrow transplantation].

Cytomegalovirus infection of the digestive tract is rare and particularly severe after transplantation. Colon is the most often affected part of the digestive tube. We present the case of acute cytomegalovirus colitis that occurred five months after a bone marrow transplantation.

[Prognostic factors for splenectomy for hematologic diseases].

The aim of this study was to identify the prognostic factors of intraoperative haemorrhage, perioperative blood transfusions and morbidity. We collected 120 splenectomies in Beau Séjour department of surgery, Charles' Nicolle Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia between 1979 and 1999. The descriptive analysis showed sex-ratio 0.