[Composite nail transfer by the traditional method].

Introduction: We have retrospectively reviewed our experience in the treatment of traumatic loss of the whole nail complex.

Method: Contraindications for our technique are cases suitable for microsurgical transfer and cases with a poorly vascularised recipient bed. Under local anaesthesia, we harvested the nail unit composed of the eponychiurn matrix, nail table, hyponychium and lateral folds.

[Colorectal cancer in Madagascar. A study of 81 cases diagnosed and treated at the Antananarivo General Hospital].

Colorectal adenocarcinoma are rare in Madagascar. Over a period of 8 years, such tumors were treated in the cancerology and surgery departments of Antananarivo. The low incidence and the relative young age at the time of diagnosis are comparable to observations made in other developing countries.