[The lithiasic acute cholecystitis: laparoscopic treatment (About 106 cases)].

Aim: To assess the feasibility and the advantages of the coelioscopy in the treatment of the acute cholecystitis.

Methods: From January 1996 to December 2001, 106 laparoscopic cholecystectomies for acute cholecystitis have been collected. The diagnosis of acute cholecystitis has been confirmed for all cases by the pathologic exam.

[Severe rectal bleeding in an Tunisian woman: colonic tuberculosis mimicking a tumor].

Since colonic tuberculosis is uncommon and its bifocal pseudo-tumor form is exceptional, differential diagnosis with the colonic cancer is exceedingly difficult. The purpose of this report is to describe a case of primary colonic tuberculosis in two separate locations discovered in a patient presenting with persistent massive hematochezia. A 69-year-old woman was examined for hematochezia, abdominal pain and recent weight loss.