[Neuromeningeal tuberculosis in northeastern suburbs of Paris. Nineteen cases].

Subject: Analyze characteristics of neuromeningeal tuberculosis in the northeastern suburbs of Paris.

Material And Method: Retrospective study of 19 observations between 1988 and 1999.

Results: Thirteen cases of meningitis, 3 cases of meningitis associated with a tuberculoma and 3 cases with isolated tuberculoma were described.

[Peritoneal tuberculosis: 27 cases in the suburbs of northeastern Paris].

Setting: Peritoneal tuberculosis did not disappear from France during the 1990s.

Objective: To determine the characteristics of peritoneal tuberculosis in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris.

Method: A retrospective study of cases diagnosed with peritoneal tuberculosis between 1990 and 1998 in five suburban hospitals in the north-east region of Paris.

[Intraductal mucinous tumor of the pancreas: report of a clinical case].

A 49-year-old diabetic patient with abdominal pain was found at ultrasonography and computed tomography to have a cystic mass in the head of the pancreas with dilatation of the main pancreatic duct. The head of the pancreas and the duodenum were removed surgically. Examination of the operative specimen showed chronic pancreatitis, dilatation of the main pancreatic duct, and impacted mucus in the secondary ducts with villous proliferation of the ductal epithelium, thus allowing a diagnosis of intraductal adenomatosis.

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in the northeastern suburbs of Paris: 141 cases.

Background: Big cities were particularly affected by tuberculosis in the 1990s. Methods: We studied 141 cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in patients not infected by HIV in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. Results: A total of 84 men and 57 women were included in the study.

Mycobacterium kansasii infection in a Paris suburb: comparison of disease presentation and outcome according to human immunodeficiency virus status. Groupe dEtude Des Mycobactéries de la Seine-Saint-Denis.

Setting: Department of Seine-Saint-Denis, France.

Objective: To compare the presentation and outcome of Mycobacterium kansasii infections according to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status.

Design: Retrospective analysis of all the medical charts of adults meeting the diagnostic criteria of the American Thoracic Society for M.