[Bone metastasis of the thumb of pseudo-angiomatous form. Apropos of a case].

The authors report a case of a bone metastasis in the thumb initially considered as an arterio-venous angioma revealing a kidney cancer; they insist on its rarity and the difficulties of the diagnosis before osseous biopsy.

[A rare localization of osteomyelitis in a child].

The authors report a case of osteomyelitis of the anterio-inferior spina iliaca. This original observation actually illustrate the difficulty of the diagnosis of osteomyelitis. They stress the interest of plain radiographs which, if correctly read, would have enabled an early diagnosis, thus avoiding more complex examinations.