Impact of the health and living conditions of migrant and non-migrant Senegalese adolescent girls on their nutritional status and growth.

Objective: To describe the living conditions of Senegalese adolescent girls according to their migration status, and to define the main socio-economic and biological determinants of their nutritional and growth status.

Design: Health and living conditions, sexual maturation, and nutritional and growth status of adolescent girls were determined within the framework of a longitudinal study on growth.

Settings: The capital city of Senegal (Dakar) and a rural community (Niakhar), 120 km south-east of Dakar.

[Treatment of urethral stenosis. 1].

The treatment of urethral strictures has considerably developed over recent years: surgical urethroplasty has been perfected at the same time as internal urethrotomy has gained a new lease of life as a result of endoscopy. Urethral dilatation by means of probes used for arterial stenoses constitutes another interesting development in this field. We reviewed our case files with a double objective in mind: to determine the reasons for our changing therapeutic practices and the results of these three methods.