Physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) care pathways: adults with severe traumatic brain injury.

This document is part of a series of guidelines documents designed by the French Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Society (SOFMER) and the French Federation of PRM (FEDMER). These reference documents focus on a particular pathology (here patients with severe TBI). They describe for each given pathology patients' clinical and social needs, PRM care objectives and necessary human and material resources of the pathology-dedicated pathway.

Physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) care pathways: "stroke patients".

This document is part of a series of documents designed by the French Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Society (SOFMER) and the French Federation of PRM (FEDMER). These documents describe the needs for a specific type of patients; PRM care objectives, human and material resources to be implemented, chronology as well as expected outcomes. "Care pathways in PRM" is a short document designed to enable the reader (physicians, decision-maker, administrator, lawyer or finance manager) to quickly apprehend the needs of these patients and the available therapeutic care structures for proper organization and pricing of these activities.

[Ischemic bilateral lumbosacral plexopathy and walking disability following surgical treatment of secondary aortoenteric fistulas: a case report and review of literature].

Objective: Aortoenteric fistula is a rare and serious pathology with a high mortality rate (around 50%). The surgery's neurological complications are also rare (around 0.25% of reconstructive interventions); two-thirds are spinal cord infarcts, with the remaining one-third corresponding to cases of ischemic polyradiculopathy.

[Study of bone mass with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry in a population of 99 lower limb amputees].

Objectives: Osteopenia in lower extremity amputation is described with an increased risk of fracture and it seems to be interesting to study bone mass in a population of 99 amputees of limb.

Material And Method: We studied the bone mass with Dual Energy Xray Absorptiometry in patients with limb amputation, above and under knee and who have been treated in the rehabilitation department of Mulhouse's hospital and more specifically the percentage of the difference of the mesure between amputed and non amputed side and the influence on this mesure of several factors like sexe; age; diabetes mellitus; delay of amputation; aetiology and use of prosthesis.

Results: For all the population, we find lower values of BMD (Bone mineral density) for femoral neck -10.

[Epidemiology and psycho-social consequences of urinary incontinence].

Previous studies about urinary incontinence epidemiology are disparate. Incontinence affects about 7% of children between 5 and 14, without predominance of sex. Among adults, prevalence is higher for female.

[Enteroid cyst of the spleen: a new entity? Apropos of 2 cases].

The authors describe two cases of non parasitic cyst of the spleen of "enteroid" origin on histological examination. No similar cases have yet seen described in the medical literature that we consulted. The histology of these two cases is quite unusual in that cysts are multilocular and mucoid with a cylindrical mucus secreting epithelium similar to cystic tumours of the ovary.