Multifocal pyomyositis in an immunocompetent patient.

Pyomyositis is defined as suppurative infection of the skeletal muscle and usually occurs in immunocompromized patients. We managed a 23-year-old man admitted for myalgia and evidence of infection, with onset after a strenuous physical activity. Numerous muscles were involved.

[Non-Hodgkin's malignant lymhoma of mental soft tissue: a case report].

Non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma is rarely located in the soft tissue of the chin making diagnosis difficult. Clinical signs are non-specific: progressive weight loss, asthenia, fever, an inflammatory tumefaction unresponsive to medical treatment. Imaging shows a homogeneous tumefaction of the soft tissues.

[Moroccan experience in the surgical treatment of multiple hydatid cysts in the liver].

We studied 94 cases of multiple hydatid cysts in the liver, over a period of ten years. These cases accounted for 31.3% of all cases of hydatid cysts treated surgically in the Visceral Surgery Department of Avicenne Military Hospital in Marrakech.

[Renal lymphangioma].

The authors report the case of a 39-year-old man presenting with renal colic attributed to a renal tumour diagnosed on CT scan. Treatment consisted of total nephrectomy in the absence of a definitive intraoperative histological diagnosis of renal lymphangioma. Renal lymphangioma is a rare benign tumour, probably derived from a congenital malformation of the lymphatic system.

[Hydatid cysts of the liver opening in the biliary tract. Report of 64 cases].

Study Aim: The aim of this retrospective study was to report a series of patients with hydatid cyst opened in the biliary tract, who were operated in Morocco.

Patients And Method: From 1991 to 1998, among 250 hydatid cysts of the liver operated in the same center, 64 were in communication with the biliary tract (25%). There were 39 men and 25 women.