Tuberculous Abscess of the Chest Wall Simulate Pyogenic Abscess.

The chest wall tuberculosis abscesses is rare. We present a case of a 27-year-old immunocompetent male who presented chest wall abscesses. Imaging (chest radiographic, ultrasound, and computed tomography) and Ziehl-Neelsen staining demonstrated chest wall tuberculosis abscesses.

Intravenous Contrast Medium Administration for Computed Tomography Scan in Emergency: A Possible Cause of Contrast-Induced Nephropathy.

The goal of this study was to assess risk for CIN after CT Scan during an emergency and to identify risk factors for the patient. Prospective review of all patients admitted to the emergency room (ER) of the Teaching Hospital of Lomé (Togo) during a 2-year period. CIN was defined as an increase in serum creatinine by 0.

A low-cost tele-imaging platform for developing countries.

Purpose: To design a "low-cost" tele-imaging method allowing real-time tele-ultrasound expertise, delayed tele-ultrasound diagnosis, and tele-radiology between remote peripherals hospitals and clinics (patient centers) and university hospital centers (expert center).

Materials And Methods: A system of communication via internet (IP camera and remote access software) enabling transfer of ultrasound videos and images between two centers allows a real-time tele-radiology expertise in the presence of a junior sonographer or radiologist at the patient center. In the absence of a sonographer or radiologist at the patient center, a 3D reconstruction program allows a delayed tele-ultrasound diagnosis with images acquired by a lay operator (e.

[Abdominal ultrasound abnormalities incidentally discovered in patients with asymptomatic HIV in Lome (Togo)].

Few studies have examined ultrasound imaging of abdominal manifestations of HIV-AIDS, although these rank second only to its pleuropulmonary manifestations. Thus, this study sought to determine the features of abdominal ultrasound in HIV infection. This prospective, descriptive and analytical study took place in the radiology department of the University Hospital Campus Lomé and covered the three-year period of 2009-2011.

[Hygiene of transvaginal ultrasound probes in a developing country: case of Togo].

The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge and practices of hygiene rules for transvaginal ultrasound by sonographers practicing in Togo. Their knowledge of these rules is good. In practice, they mainly use condoms to protect the vaginal probe, which is sufficient to prevent horizontal transmission of infection.

[Anencephaly in twin pregnancy: a series of 6 cases].

Objective: To report a series of cases of anencephaly in twin pregnancies and assess the prognosis of the normal twin.

Patients And Methods: Retrospective study covering 4 years, at the CHU Campus in Lomé, assessing the sonographic aspects and management of cases of anencephaly in twin pregnancies.

Results: Anencephaly was found in 6 twin pregnancies.

[Ulcerative colitis: a case in Togo].

Ulcerative colitis seems to be rare in sub-Saharan Africa. Because its clinical and radiological signs are non-specific, anatomopathologic studies are necessary for definitive diagnosis after exclusion of parasitic, bacterial, and viral causes. The purpose of this report is to describe a fatal case of ulcerative colitis in a 68-year-old woman in Togo.

[System of telesonography with synchronous teleconsultations and asynchronous telediagnoses (Togo)].

Introduction: Ultrasonography is an important nonirradiating diagnostic medical imaging procedure, frequently used, especially in urgent circumstances. This relatively inexpensive noninvasive examination makes it possible to diagnose disorders in various parts of the human body, by examining, for example, the abdomen and pelvis, the cardiovascular system, and the muscles and joints. Ultrasound is also an operator-dependent examination, in that the quality of the result depends on precision in the manipulation of the probe.

[Contribution of the x-ray to the diagnosis of the non traumatic knee's pain in the teaching hospitals Tokoin and campus of Lomé].

Goal: This survey has been realized in order to show the diagnostic interest of the standard radiography in the non traumatic knee's pain.

Objectives: The main objectives of this work were to describe the elementary lesions, the etiological aspects of the non traumatic knee's pain and to list the met pathologies.

Patient And Method: It was about a prospective survey of six months (december 2007-may 2008) track in the departments of radiology of the Teaching Hospitals of Lomé and on a population of 187 patients enduring a non traumatic knee's pain.

Preliminary experience with tele-sonography and tele-mammography in Togo.

Many medical centres are equipped with a sonograph. However, a sonographist is not always present or is not trained in all of the specialised domains of sonography. .

[Heterogeneous testicle on ultrasonography: consider tuberculosis after cancer in endemic zone].

The purpose of this report is to describe findings of clinical examination and imaging in a 27-year-old man admitted for nonpainful left testicular enlargement. Initial diagnosis was testicular cancer based on ultrasonography and association with pulmonary metastasis. This diagnosis was revised after histological study demonstrated testicular tuberculosis.

[Kidney ultrasound scan performed on the adult patient with HIV serology positive in the University Hospital of Tokoin and campus of Lome].

Purposes: To describe the elementary lesions, to list the kidney pathologies, to determine the kidney reach frequency and to establish an interrelationship enters the gravity of the kidney reach and the kidney's structure at the ultrasound scan.

Patient And Method: It was about a prospective survey of ten (10) month, realized in the Departments of radiology of the Teaching Hospitals of Lomé (CHU Tokoin and Campus), concerning 281 patients aged of 18 to 71 years whose HIV serology is positive.

Results: The radiological frequency of the HIV/AIDS infection noted during our period of survey was of 3.

[Value of genitography after late discovery of abnormal sexual development: 5 cases in Lome, Togo].

The purpose of this report is to describe the value of genitography in management of abnormal sexual development abnormalities discovered at a late age (> or = 10 years). Genitography was performed in 5 patients ranging from 10 to 23 years of age. No procedural difficulty was encountered in any of these patients.

[Crossed renal ectopia: a case report].

The authors report a case of a crossed renal ectopia with fusion discovered in an outpatient admitted for abdominal pain to recall embryologic, epidemiology and diagnosis aspects using a literature review.

[Tuberculosis in newborns in a tropical neonatology unit].

Unlabelled: We report three cases of tuberculosis observed in a neonatal unit in a country characterized with a high endemia of tuberculosis.

Case Reports: Case 1. A term infant presented at the age of 35 days, with cough since day 18, respiratory distress and bronchopneumonia.

[Spinal diseases in a rheumatology hospital unit in Lomé (Togo)].

A retrospective study was conducted to determine the different kinds of spinal diseases in patients attending the rheumatology unit of Lomé hospital, Togo. Among the 4927 patients seen over a 5-year period, 1966 (40%) had spinal involvement. The disease observed were as follows: degenerative spinal disorders: 1872 cases (95%); infectious discitis: 41 cas (2.

[Coxofemoral pathology in rheumatology consultation in Togo].

A retrospective study was conducted to determine the relative incidence and characteristics of the different forms of coxofemoral disease encountered in a hospital rheumatology clinic in Lomé (Togo). Hemoglobin electrophoresis was performed in all subjects included in the study. Of 2812 subjects examined over a 44-month period, 80, i.

[Degenerative spinal disease in an outpatient clinic in Lomé (Togo)].

A survey was conducted to determine the frequency and semiological characteristics of degenerative spinal disease in patients attending a hospital rheumatology outpatient clinic in Lomé, Togo. Seven hundred and one of the 1,821 patients seen over a two-year period had degenerative spinal disease. Spinal disease included lower back pain (n = 385), lumbar and radicular pain suggestive of disk protrusion (n = 137), lumbar and radicular pain with claudication suggestive of stenosis of the spinal canal (n = 42), dorsal pain (n = 24), cervical pain (n = 68) and cervical and brachial pain (n = 45).