[Cystic cervical and mediastinal lymphangioma: a case report and review of the literature].

Cervical and mediastinal cystic lymphangioma are rare and benign tumours. They looked like a lateral and cervical mass. Medical imaging allows to suspect the diagnosis but histology only may to assert it.

[Acute flaccid paralysis after drug injection: a case report in the pediatric service of the Befelatanana Hospital Center in Antananarivo].

In the framework of the poliomyelitis program eradication, the World Health Organization suggests two markers to survey the circulation of the poliovirus: notification of all cases of acute flask paralysis (AFP) and etiological research of these AFP from two stool samples. The authors reported the case of a AFP, occurring after a polio vaccination in a 5-year-old boy who had later an acute rhinopharyngitis treated by antibiotics and quinine intramuscular injections. A left lower limb AFP justified his hospitalisation.

[A case report of bronchial cysticercosis].

Cysticercosus cellulosae is usually located in muscles, subcutaneous tissues, brain and eyes. The authors reported a rare case of bronchial cysticercosis in a 20-year-old man. The only clinical signs were hemoptysis.

[Bilharzian meningomyeloradiculopathy in children].

Child meningomyeloradiculitis is a rare complication form of schistosomiasis, even in hyperendemic area. Its diagnosis is very difficult, especially if there are not history or signs of Schistosoma mansoni or hematobium infections. It must be evocated in case of acute flask paralysis occurring in children living in Schistosoma infections endemic area.

[Severe malaria in children at the pediatric service of the Befelatanana Hospital Center at Antananarivo (Madagascar) in 1996-1998].

The definition of severe malaria is no longer limited to cerebral malaria, but it is as well extended to other clinical forms of the disease. The authors reported the epidemiological and clinical survey and evaluative aspects of severe malaria in Antananarivo. This retrospective study included 48 children less than 15 years old, hospitalized at the paediatric unit Debré of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Befelatanana (Antananarivo) for severe malaria as defined by world Health Organization (WHO) criteria.

[Maternal mortality in the maternity ward of Befelatanana. University Hospital of Antananarivo].

Objective: A retrospective study was conducted to assess mortality rates at the Befelatanana Women's Hospital from January 1st 1988 through December 31st 1997, define trends, study causes and identify problems encountered during treatment and those related to the referral system, in order to improve prevention and patient management

Material: and method. Birth and death registries, operation reports and patient charts were analyzed. All maternal deaths wether of direct or indirect obstetrical origin were considered.