[Placenta praevia percreta with bladder invasion: a life-threatening pregnancy complication].

Placenta percreta is characterized by the penetration of trophoblast through the myometrium and peritoneum. This invasion may also involve adjacent structures. This condition is the most serious of placental implantation anomalies.

[Tubo-ovarian actinomycosis. A report of two cases and literature review].

Actinomycosis is an infection due to an anaerobic Gram-positive bacilus bacteria: Actinomyces. Tubo-ovarian locallisation is rare. It more often appears clinically as a pseudo-tumoral and feverish syndrom, evoking wrongly a malignant tumoral pathology, and often leads to a mutilating surgical treatment.

[Prune belly syndrome: early prenatal diagnosis and management].

Prune Belly syndrome is characterized by a combination of megacystis, anterior abdominal wall distension with deficiency of the abdominal wall musculature, and bilateral cryptorchidism. Diagnosis is easy after 15 weeks of gestation, but may be difficult at the end of the first term. Authors report 2 cases of Prune Belly syndrome diagnosed at 11 and 14 weeks of gestation respectively.

[Indicators for successful vaginal delivery after cesarean section: a proposal of a predictive score].

The purpose of this study is to determine predictive factors of successful vaginal delivery after cesarean section, and to estimate the risks of this trial of labor (TOL). A retrospective study about 352 women undergoing a TOL after cesarean section was carried out. Different variables stratified by the termination of the TOL were analysed with statistic tests.

[Pemphigoid gestationis: a pregnancy-related pathology underestimated by obstetricians].

Pemphigoid gestationis (herpes gestationis) is an autoimmune bullous dermotosis occuring dining pregnancy or in the post-partum period. The interaction of this rare pathology with pregnancy is underestimated by obstetricians. Authors report one case of pemphigoid gestationis diagnosed in a pregnant woman at term.