[Treatment of cervical cancer].

The treatment of uterine cervical cancer evolved the last past twenty years. The management of early stages cervical cancer is based on surgery +/- after an initial brachytherapy in order to increase loco-regional control. A conservative treatment preserving uterine and ovarian functions is sometimes possible for young patients < 40 years old wishing to conceive.

Low-grade steatosis and major changes in portal flow as new prognostic factors in steroid-treated alcoholic hepatitis.

The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and prognostic value of major alterations of portal flow in patients with steroid-treated alcoholic hepatitis. Fifty patients with severe, histologically proven alcoholic hepatitis were enrolled. Clinical data, liver test results, and hepatic Doppler ultrasound findings were collected at inclusion and at month 2.

[Dilatation of bile ducts in polycystic kidney disease in adults].

We report the cases of 4 adult patients with polycystic kidney disease and dilatation of bile ducts. Dilatation involved the extra-hepatic bile ducts in all 4 cases and also affected the intra-hepatic bile ducts in 3 cases. A prospective ultrasonographic study in search of biliary tract abnormalities was undertaken in 40 patients with dominant polycystic kidney disease.

[Echography in pyelocaliceal tumors].

In a study of over 32 pyelocaliceal tumors greater than 1 cm in diameter, the authors review retrospectively the reports of the pyelographic and sonographic documents obtained in these patients before the definitive diagnosis was confirmed by the pathological examination. They observed that pyelography has a much greater diagnostic accuracy than does sonography: 31 confirmed (27) or suspected (4) tumors whereas only one tumor was overlooked (silent kidney) on pyelography and 12 diagnosed tumors, 15 overlooked and 5 diagnostic errors on ultrasonography. However, it should be noted that the results of ultrasonography are much better when the results of the intravenous pyelogram are known than when the latter is performed first.

[Imaging of ureteral and pelvic diverticuli. Apropos of 49 cases].

A review of 49 cases of rare ureteral and pelvic diverticula enables certain clinical and radiologic conclusions to be drawn. Lesions were bifid ureters with blind branches (20 cases), single (8 cases) or multiple (10 cases) diverticula of ureter and pelvic diverticula (11 cases). As previously reported, ureteral diverticula produced few clinical signs whereas these were marked in pyelic lesions.