[Catamenial hemothorax: Results of 11 operated cases].

Objective: To report our therapeutic approach toward catamenial hemothorax.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective study from January 1994 to November 2018 concerned patients operated under general anesthesia for catamenial hemothorax. A posterolateral thoracotomy approach was implemented either directly or after primary videothoracoscopy.

[Pneumothorax catamenial: results of 18 cases operas].

This study aims to propose a therapeutic approach for catamenial pneumothorax based on outcomes reported in 18 cases. We conducted a retrospective study of 18 female elderly patients with an average age of 32.2 years who had undergone surgery for right (16 cases) and bilateral catamenial pneumothorax (2 cases) from January 1994 to December 2016.

[Bronchial carcinoid tumor and recurrent pneumothoraxes].

Pneumothorax is a rare clinical manifestation of lung cancer. It can exceptionally reveal a bronchial carcinoid tumor. We present the case of a 27-year-old woman in whom recurrent pneumothoraxes were the clinical manifestation of a bronchial carcinoid tumor.

Three Hundred Fifty-One Patients With Pneumothorax Undergoing Uniportal (Single Port) Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery.

Background: Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is usually performed using three ports. Uniportal VATS has not yet been widely developed. We report our single institution experience in uniportal VATS for the surgical management of 351 patients with pneumothorax.

Noncardiac thoracic surgery in Abidjan, from 1977 to 2015.

Background: To report and analyze noncardiac thoracic operations performed at the Cardiology Institute of Abidjan (Institut de Cardiologie d'Abidjan) from 1977 to 2015.

Methods: This is a retrospective and descriptive study covering 39 years, from 1977 to 2015. This study period was divided into three periods of 13 years each: P1 from 1977 to 1989, P2 from 1990 to 2002 and P3 from 2003 to 2015.

[The inner flap of the thigh: an alternative about the cover of the ankle and the foot].

The authors relate a case of cutaneous cover of the ankle and the right foot on a leg with precarious vascularization by the inner flap of the thigh with a serious burnt person the left leg amputated. The flap, which has been autonomized first before being set apart, got a well development and allowed to cover the ankle and the foot. It is a flap which deserve to be used and can count among the cover means of the ankle and the foot and even to constitute an alternative to the use of classical flaps (sural and supramalleolar flaps) in case of vascular risk.