[MR imaging in spinal cord injury].

Purpose: To describe MR features of spinal trauma and assess the value of MR imaging in the prognosis.

Material And Methods: Retrospective confrontation between initial and follow up MRI findings and clinical features in 7 young patients with spinal cord injury.

Results: Five lesions were due to motor vehicle accidents and 2 lesions were secondary to falls.

[Magnetic resonance imaging features of desmoplastic cerebral ganglioglioma of infancy: report of 1 case].

Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma is a rare intracranial tumor of infancy, characterized by solid and cystic component, voluminous size and supratentorial location. These tumors are diagnosed usually below the age of 2 years. We report 1 case of desmoplastic ganglioglioma in 13-year-old male.

[Atypic radiologic aspect of a renal cell carcinoma in children].

Renal cell carcinoma is rare in children and is usually found in late childhood. The authors report on an exceptional case of renal cell carcinoma in a 10-year-old girl. The radiological aspect is misleading and has not been previously reported in the literature.

[Abdominal wall abscess as the presenting sign in carcinoma of the colon: report of 4 cases].

Purpose: We report four cases of unusual presentation of colonic cancer revealed by an abscess of the abdominal wall.

Materials And Methods: Our study included 3 men and 1 women ranging in age from 33 to 66 years presenting with abdominal wall abscess (in the left anterior abdominal wall in 2 patients and in the quadratus lumborum muscle in the other 2 patients). Our cases were listed from the departments of radiology and abdominal surgery of Sahloul hospital from 1995 through 2000.