[A new Military Medical Service for the 21st century: a necessity].

The Military Medical Service is at the cross-road of two deep restructurings, that of Defense and that of the public health system. It will have to be capable of supporting a professional army prepared to conduct foreign operations. The new Military Medical Service relies on seven basic principles which have been submitted to the National Academy of Medicine for examination.

[The hospital policy of the Military Health Service].

After having pointed out what nowadays the military hospital area represents and what its missions consist in, the authors shed the light on the trends they want the Medical Corps organization to develop and follow in order to meet its needs within the field of its allowed means. As a conclusion, they bring out the fact that, in the future, doctors will have to assume responsibilities if they want to remain "deciders", as far as hospital management is concerned.

[Algodystrophy and venous thrombosis of the lower extremities. Diagnostic discussion. Apropos of 3 cases].

The authors report 2 cases of probable algodystrophy of the lower extremities, associated to a definite deep venous thrombosis. They discuss the relationships between the two diseases and the difficulties of the differential diagnosis in light of a third case where the algodystrophy is definite and manifests itself as a deep venous thrombosis confirmed by phlebography. They insist on the absolute need to rule out a deep venous thrombosis before considering the exceptional diagnosis of algodystrophy with pseudo-phlebitic manifestations.