[Tuberculosis in elderly persons].

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare the epidemiology, clinical features and clinical course of primary presentations with pulmonary tuberculosis occurring in older and younger patients.

Patients And Methods: We undertook a prospective, comparative study in the Pneumology clinic of the National University Hospital of Fann in Dakar, from April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006, collecting data on all patients presenting with a first episode of bacterially confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis.

Results: We studied 187 first presentations with confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis including 12.

[Role of US in the management of de Quervain's tenosynovitis: review of 22 cases].

Purpose: To assess the role of US in the management of de Quervain's tenosynovitis.

Materials And Methods: Using a high-frequency transducer (12 MHz), sagittal and axial images were obtained of the first extensor compartment. The US features of 22 symptomatic patients were reviewed (positive Finkelstein's maneuver).

[Clinical, biological and radiological spectrum of newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis].

The aim of the present study was to describe the clinical, biological and the chest-X ray presentations of newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis. A retrospective study of 200 patients was performed from January to October 2004 in the respiratory diseases unit of Dakar's University Teaching Hospital. Among the 200 cases, 140 (70%) were male, giving a sex ratio of 2.

[Congenital absence of the patella: two cases reported].

Objectives: To remind a rare disease, To emphasize the importance of patellar agenesis because it's a calling sign, To insist on the necessity to know child bony growth.

Materials And Methods: We reported observations of two negro-african children's, one female and one male, who were both 7-years-old. They were referred for troubles of the walk, knee pains for the male, and for the female frequent falls and hypotonia.

[Tuberculosis and diabetes].

Introduction: We performed a retrospective case control study for the period between 1st January 1999 and 31st August 2004, comparing the radiological appearances of tuberculosis in 100 diabetics to those in patients matched for age and sex, with pulmonary TB alone presenting to The Chest clinic of the National Hospital of Fann.

Methods And Results: Diabetes was present in 4.7% of the 2116 patients hospitalized for pulmonary tuberculosis during the period of study and occurred more commonly in men (60%) with an average age of 51 years (73%).