[Evaluation of results of a series of 58 breast reconstruction after cancer].

The evaluation of 58 breast reconstructions operated in Boucicaut Hospital demonstrated positive result. The authors review the techniques used for contralateral breast symmetrization. The policy generally adapted has been to perform two sequential operations: 1st step: implantation of a prefilled prosthesis and contralateral breast symmetrization; 2d step: reconstruction of areolo-nipple complex and refinement of contralateral breast.

[Objective evaluation of the results of interventions for breast hypertrophy].

It would appear to be impossible to compare completely different techniques of mammaplasty performed in very different clinical situations. However, we thought it would be useful to approach the result of mammaplasties from a more "orthopaedic" point of view. Such an approach distinguishes populations of patients with different results and in whom the postoperative assessment must take into account the result obtained, the residual scars and the final breast shape.

[Ultrasonic study of the soft tissues of the hand. II. Tumors and pseudotumors of soft tissues. Preliminary results apropos of 12 surgically treated cases].

Thirty patients underwent a sonographic examination of the hand because of nodular masses. In 12 out of these, the surgical removal exhibited 5 benign tumors (2 giant cell tumors, 1 angioma, 1 lipoma, 1 myoma), 5 pseudo-tumors (1 granulomatous tenosynovitis, 1 nodular tendinitis, 2 sebaceous cysts, 1 synovial cyst) and 2 congenital abnormalities of the lumbrical muscles. Except the lipoma and the nodular tendinitis, all the masses were hypoechoic or anechoic.

[Results of the primary repair of 28 isolated median nerve injuries in the wrist].

Based on the study of a homogeneous series of twenty-eight isolated median nerve injuries at the wrist, sutured as an emergency procedure, the authors determined the course and sequelae of this type of nerve lesion with no associated tendon involvement. Repair was associated with epi-perineural suture performed with an operating microscope, immobilisation in slight flexion of the wrist for three weeks and rehabilitation of sensation. 60.