Gastrointestinal hemorrhage caused by small intestinal benign tumors: 2 cases report.

Gastrointestinal bleedings caused by small intestinal tumors are rare and difficult to diagnose because they are not easy to access to the conventional endoscopy. We report two cases, one of them from proximal jejunum and the other one from ileal intestine complicated by intussusception. The two cases were admitted in the emergency department for hematochezia and melena, the diagnosis was established by enhanced helical computed tomography angiography.

Rare synovium pseudotumor of the knee.

It is a rare synovium pseudotumor that mainly concerns the male adult, of unknown etiology, espe-cially observed in the knee, especially in the suprapatellar recess. The arboreal lipoma consists of hypertrophic synovial villi and contains fat in very large quantities, so that the mass has a lipoma-tous appearance. The diagnosis is based on an MRI that shows hypertrophy of synovial villi appear-ing as a fatty signal on all sequences.

Safety of azithromycin in infants under six months of age in Niger: A community randomized trial.

Background: Mass azithromycin distribution reduces under-5 child mortality. Trachoma control programs currently treat infants aged 6 months and older. Here, we report findings from an infant adverse event survey in 1-5 month olds who received azithromycin as part of a large community-randomized trial in Niger.

'A living death': a qualitative assessment of quality of life among women with trichiasis in rural Niger.

Background: Prior to blindness, trachoma is thought to profoundly affect women's abilities to lead normal lives, but supporting evidence is lacking. To better understand the effects of trichiasis, we asked women to define quality of life, how trichiasis affects this idea and their perceptions of eyelid surgery.

Methods: Operated and unoperated women were purposively selected for in-depth interviews.

Household latrine use, maintenance and acceptability in rural Zinder, Niger.

We conducted a survey in rural Niger to assess use, maintenance and acceptability of household latrines one year after a subsidized promotion project. Standard interviews were conducted with 200 randomly selected project participants and a visual latrine inspection. Before the project, 21.