Severe head injury in children: Management of a traumatic craniotomy case in a resource-constrained hospital.

Introduction And Importance: Craniocerebral wounds are potentially serious and life-threatening injuries. These are real medical and surgical emergencies. The authors report a case of craniocerebral injury in a child with extensive craniotomy and its management in a hospital with limited resources in Togo.

[Problematics of subarachnoid hemorrhage in developing countries: The case of Togo].

Objective: To analyze the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies as well as the results of the treatment of spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in Togo, before creating a neurosurgery department.

Methods: We conducted a case series of subarachnoid hemorrhage collected from 30 June 2005 to 30 June 2010 in the Universities Hospital of Lomé. It involved patients older than 15 years of age hospitalized for subarachnoid hemorrhage with clinical and/or radiation confirmation.