Interet du curetage biopsique dans l'exploration de l'endometre. A propos de 200 cas

The aim of this study is to evaluate the reliability of the uterine curettage in endometrial pathology. It is a retrospective analysis of 200 uterine curettages carried out in the military hospital of tunis over 4 years [1994-1998]. The reasons of consultation were genital hemorrhage, sterility and amenorrhea. Histological lesions were classified as follows: 40.8% hyperplasia, 8.4% atrophy, 1.34% endometrite, and 1.34% adenocarcinoma. uterine curttage associated to hysteroscopy is far the best technique for the diagnosis of intrauterine lesions

Anesthesia and ressussitation in Arabo-Islamic medical: analytic study through Ibn Sina

Nervous system anatomy knowledge acquired by arabo-islamic physicians enabled them to know its physi-long represented by its excitability and its conductibility, and to understand pain physio-logy. Ibn Sina in his book entitle "The Canon of Medicine" pr‚cised anethetic drugs and their side effects. Among these anesthetic means there were opium and ice. Ibn Sina distinguished organic pain and psychogenic pain. He used sedative and antalgic and soporific drugs in treatment of some psychologic diseases as melancholia. Moslem physicians were the first to use cold water to treat superficial burns. Anesthesia which lead to heavy sleep to used achieve surgical operations by oral nasal [inhalation] and rectal route as it was described by Ibn Sina who indicated dosage to achieve three or four hour anesthesia which was necessary in an amputation surgery