[Tuberculosis of the chest wall: Report of a case at the Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona Teaching Hospital, Antananarivo, Madagascar].

Background/rationale: Tuberculosis is a public health issue. Extra-pulmonary presentations are rare and sometimes hard to diagnose and manage. Here, we report a case of tuberculosis of the chest wall in a 28-year-old man in order to discuss the mechanism, diagnostic and therapeutic problems posed by this rare localization.

Pneumonectomy in a child due to belated diagnosis of foreign body aspiration: a case report.

Introduction: With early diagnosis, fiberoptic or rigid bronchoscopy methods are the gold standard in the management of tracheobronchial foreign body. Otherwise, nonrecognized bronchial foreign bodies cause irreversible damage to the airways and lungs. The deficiency of the health system noted in many developing countries such as Madagascar, combined with the fundamental problem relating to children's conditions, which are determined by social and educational factors, makes it almost impossible to provide early and appropriate management of the penetration syndrome.