[Patient-controlled analgesia in cancer pain: practical aspects].

Allowing a suffering patient with cancer to control his pain is a challenge that numerous medical teams intend to take up. Although the best treatment is the etiologic one, in many situations the symptomatic and adjuvant therapies are both indispensable. Among them, the patient controlled analgesia (PCA) is a concept referring to the management of the pain, but also to the administration of some analgesic drugs.

[Thyphoid fever in Tananarive (Madagascar): a review of 20o cases (author's transl)].

A clinical and biological study of 200 cases in Tananarive. The conventional clinical form is still frequent because patients have no immunity and report too late to the hospital. The main complications concern the heart and the digestive tract.

[Cerebral malaria with renal insufficiency in a 5 months pregnant woman. The use of prostaglandines for delivery (author's transl)].

Report of a typical case of cerebral malaria with coma during 3 days, pneumopathy and renal insufficiency with failure of concentration. The delivery of a dead foetus has been started by prostaglandines.