[Tuberculous encapsulating peritonitis. About 18 cases].

Our goal is to study the circumstances of diagnosis and the therapeutic modes of encapsulating peritonitis of tubercular origin. We report in this retrospective study 18 cases of encapsulating peritonitis of tubercular origin collected from 1982 to 2000. Symptoms and signs ere dominated by the general signs of tubercular nature, found isolated or in association with other, in 14 patients.

[Anastomotic ulcer after vagotomy for duodenal ulcer].

Between January 1981 and December 2000, 2609 patient underwent surgery for duodenal ulcer. 2274 underwent isolated vagotomy; 1590 had vagotomy associated with GI anastomosis. Only relapses of anostomic ulcers after vagotomy associated with gastrojejunal anastomosis were included in this study.