[Primary renal carcinoid metastasizing to distant sites 12 years after the initial diagnosis].

Primary renal cancinoids are rare, with one hundred cases reported in the literature. Histologically, it is a well-differentiated tumor which shares a morphological pattern similar to that seen in carcinoids identified at other anatomic locations. We report a case of a 45-year-old man with primitive renal carcinoid, with diagnosis made after the detection of liver metastases.

Relationship between p73 polymorphism and the immunohistochemical profile of the full-length (TAp73) and NH2-truncated (ΔNp73) isoforms in Tunisian patients.

Background: We examined the association of one linked GC/AT polymorphism at p73 with the risk of colorectal cancer.

Aim: In this study, we investigated whether this polymorphism was related to the risk of colorectal cancer, and whether there were relationships between the polymorphism and loss of heterozygosity, protein expression, or clinicopathologic variables.

Materials And Methods: The p73 genotypes were determined by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism in 150 Tunisian patients with colorectal cancer and in 204 healthy control subjects.

[Comparative study of appendical mucocela and pseudomyxoma peritonei. About 25 cases].

Aim: to study the clinicopathological features of the different types of appendical mucocele and to compare them with those of pseudomyxoma peritonei.

Methods: 25 cases of appendical mucocele were operated in the Cap-Bon region in Tunisia during a period of 13 years from 1994 to 2006.

Results: 9 retentionnal cysts, 13 mucinous cystadenomas, one serrated adenoma, one hyperplasia of the mucosa and one cystadenocarcinoma were diagnosed.

[Kocher-Debre-Semelaigne syndrome. Apropos of a case].

We report a new case of Kocher-Debré-Semelaigne syndrome in a child and describe this condition on the basis of a review of the literature. Affected individuals exhibit both hypothyroidism and pseudohypertrophic myopathy and consequently have an athletic appearance that contrasts with physical and psychological sluggishness.