Surgical management of scapular osteomyelitis with secondary septic arthritis of the gleno-humeral joint in a 12 year old boy: A case report.

Introduction And Importance: Acute scapular osteomyelitis is an exceptional entity with a misleading clinical presentation. If not urgently diagnosed and treated correctly, it may lead to articular surfaces damage, deformation of the humeral head, and humerus shortening.

Case Presentation: A 12-year-old boy without any medical history with osteomyelitis of the scapular neck complicated with secondary septic arthritis of the gleno-humeral joint was evaluated.

[Status of zinc and copper in pregnant women and their changes during preeclampsia].

In order to evaluate the status of zinc and copper in pregnant women and in preeclampsia, we conducted a prospective case-control study. It involved 56 pregnant women compared with 30 non-pregnant women selected as controls. For pregnant women, serum levels of zinc, copper and ceruloplasmin were determined quarterly.

A lower-cost protocol for sickle cell disease neonatal screening in Tunisia.

Background And Objectives: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of hereditary chronic anemias that manifest essentially as painful crisis and susceptibility to infection. Neonatal screening is a preventive action that reduces the rates of mortality due to complications arising from infections by encouraging early prophylactic penicillin use and pneumococcal vaccination. The purpose of this pilot study was to set up a neonatal screening protocol at a lower cost than one that uses commercially available screening kits.

[Enecphalocele: 26 retrospective cases at the Maternal and Neonatal Center of La Rabta, Tunis].

Encephalocel is leff frequent than spina bifida and anencephalia. Its incidence is 0.25@1000 births.

[Acute fatty liver of pregnancy. Three case reports].

The acute fatty liver of pregnancy is a specific disease of pregnancy. Its incidence is rare but prognosis is poor in complicated entities, and can compromise the foetal and maternal life. An early diagnosis of the illness and a multidisciplinary management based on uterine evacuation and an intensive medical care can improve the prognosis of the acute fatty liver of pregnancy (A.