[Candidemia and granulomatous tubulointerstitial nephritis].

Candida infection is a relatively common cause of nosocomial bloodstream infection in immunosuppressed patients. However, renal involvement is infrequent. Moreover, direct Candida identification on kidney biopsy is rarely possible.

[Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans developing for 25 years with 27 recurrences. Histological and ultrastructural study].

The authors report the results of a histological and ultrastructure study of a case of a protuberant dermatofibrosarcoma evolving for the last 25 years with 27 relapses. Histologically the tumour is dermic, non-encapsulated, invading the hypodermis right from the beginning and mainly made up of fusiform cells which often have a storiform appearance and proliferate in a varying degree of collagenous stroma which includes an oedematous or myxoid component. During the course of the evolution of this tumour, there were zones of cystic degeneration, but in the last 10 relapses in 1978 and 1979, we noted the predominance of cellular and compact zones with an increase in the number of mitoses.