Amoeboma cecal

Inflammatory pseudotumor uncommon parasite colon, the amoeboma cecal is a rare complication of intestinal amebiasis . Its clinical symptoms are nonspecific and a diagnosis problem. We report a case of a 61 years old patient, who had the right flank pain associated to a dysentery syndrome, the physical examination revealed a mass of the right flank. The abdominal scan showed an extra luminal tissue process of the right colon. The colonoscopy objective an extrinsic compression of the right colon obstructing the colonic lumen. The evolution was marked by the occurrence of an occlusive syndrome and the patient was operated urgently and a right colectomy was performed. Histological examination was in favor of a cecal amoebome. The postoperative course was uneventful and the evolution one year is favorable. The amoebome is difficult to diagnose, its radiological and endoscopic appearance can simulate colon cancer and lead to improper surgical treatment. Positive serology is the diagnosis and allows to initiate effective medical treatment. The amoebome should be considered in a process without extrinsic evidence confirming neoplasia, the diagnosis confirmed by serology avoids surgery

[Epidemiological profile and management of rectal cancer: what changed in 20 years?]

The incidence of rectal cancer is increasing in Western countries. What is it for us, do we have more rectal cancer? The change of our way of life, the aging population could be risk factors. Furthermore the management of rectal cancer has considerably progressed. The purpose of this study is to compare the epidemiological profil and the management of rectal cancer between two series collected to 20 years of interval. It is about two retrospective cases, the first one, collected from 1981 to 1985 [série A], includes 80 patients. The second one, recent, collected from 2005 to 2011 [série R], includes 94 patients. We analyzed for the epidemiological profile, the middle number of case per year, age, sex, seat of the tumor, histological type, metastatique stage. We analyzed for the management: operability rate, resection rate, type of intervention. The middle number of cancer of the rectum hospitalized per year in our formation is respectively 16 +/- 4.06 and 18 +/- 4.14 in serie A and the serie R [p = 0.91]. The mean age of patients was 49.5 +/- 14.7 for serie A and 48.6 +/- 13.3 for serie R [p = 0.674]. There is a masculine predominance in the two series [p = 0.7]. The three segments of the rectum are reached in the same proportions in the two series [p = 0.8]. The low rectum represented half of the cases [54.5% serie A, 56.9% série R]. The metastatique stage is more frequent in série R [32 [22.7%] vs 18 [34%] [p = 0.14]. Resection rate represents respectively in série A and série R, 68.9% and 84% [p = 0.428]. Abdomino-perineal amputation has been achieved in 45% of the cases in serie A and 30.3% of the cases serie R [p = 0.003]. The study found that the incidence of rectal cancer has not increased in our training in the space of 20 years, however, in two series, 25% of patients are aged less than 25. The management of this cancer was marked by systematic preoperative radiotherapy in the serie R for low rectal cancers, by reducing the safety margin to 2 cm and by reducing the number of abdominoperineal resection. Eidemiological profile did not change. However, the management of rectal cancer been influenced by the new data of the rectal surgery. This study showed that rectal cancer in Morocco had different characteristics than that in West country. Environmental and genetic studies may explain this difference

[Hydatid cust of the spigelian lobe of the liver: diagnosis and treatment]

Surgery of the hepatic of hygdated cysts is a current practical procedure in Marocco due to the endemic context it is generally simple, and the surgical technique is viell cadified. Nevertheless certain hepatic localization like segment I may engeder difficulties and operatory complications that the surgeon must know for a better management. This is a retrospective study over ten years, it concerns ten patients with hydatid cyst affecting the Spigelian lobe with or without other localization. There is a female predominance the mean age is 43 years. Four patients were already operated on for liver hydatid cyct: two had involvement of caudal lobe. The clinical symptoms were not specific. Diagnostic imaging is mainly based on ultrasound and CT. All the patients were operated by laparotomy. Five patients had an hydatid cyst in caudal lobe only, four other associated hepatic lesions, and one case had a peritoneal hydatid disease. Type I was found in 2cases, type III in 5, type IV in one case and infected cyst in 2 cases. At surgical exploration it was found that caudael lobe cyst was intimatel anterioly with the hilum and the hepatic pedicle and with the inferior vena cava retrohepatic posterioly and at the right sue. We performed resection of the prominent dome ; the residual cavity was treated with hydrogen peroxide and systematically drained. The immediate postoperative were simple, the postoperative hospital stay was between 8 and 18 days. The surgical treatment of segment I hepatic hydatid cyst obyes the principals of hydated surgery and involues an important large vascular or buliarg wound risk. The resection of the prominent dome is an intervention simple, rapid and hemorrhagic with low mortality, but fails to eluminate a residual cavity may be ne seat of callection. Conservative treatment remains the gold standard, provided that there is a good postoperative monitoring and adequate management of biliary complications or infection

[Primary linitis of the rectum: a difficult diagnosis]

Introduction: Primary linitis of the rectum is a rare carcinoma characterised by the difficuly to be diagnosed Histologically

Case report: A 25 years old female patient, presented with a subocclusive syndrome, secondary to an anal stenosis at 6 cm from the anal margin, of an inflammatory look. Surgical exploration showed pseudo inflammatory rectal tumour, colstomy was performed. Analysis of surgical biopsy did not find tumoral cells. Eight months later, stenosis progressed and invated the anal margin and the recto- vaginal partition. TDM showed and abdomino- pelvic mass. The pathological biopsy study, found a signet cell carcinoma. The patient died six months later

Discussion: The discordance between the histological study of different biopsies of stenosis, with the clinical picture which did not evoke an intestinal inflammatory diseace, prevented us to do an radical sollution for our patient. In spite many profound surgical biopsises which had been done, diagnosis of linitis did not proved

Conclusion: In cases of rectal stenosis of inflammatory picture which is not supported with a convinced anatomopathological arguments we must think of specific colitis

[Post hemorroidal anal stenosis]

Anal stenosis represents a rare post hemorroidectomy complication which is difficult to manage. We report a series of eight cases, five male and three female, aged 29 to 67 years old, through a period of 12 years, in whom anal stenosis occurred 2 to 16 months after hemorroidectomy, which was of pedicular type in 5 cases, circular in one case and of a non precise type in 2 cases. We performed three sphincterotomy with anoplasty, two dilatations associated with lateral sphincterotomy, one Bellan's anoplasty and an Y-V flap's anoplasty. All our patients regained their proper anal diameter, with amelioration of the discriminatory sensibility, the medium recurrence time was three years and half [maximum 9 month and 7 years]. The anoplasties provide good results. The best treatment is prophylaxis done by choosing the safety technic and respecting the rules of hemorroidectomy

dermatite atopique: aspects physiopathologiques et traitement

Atopic dermatitis represents the cutaneous facet of atopic disease. Its prevalence is in a regular increase these last decades. The physiopathology of this dermatitis is complex and not well known, implicating genetic, immunological, biochemical and environmental factors. The onset of Atopic dermatitis can start at any age of life. But it is exceptional before the age of two months; in the same way its onset after 20 years is relatively rare. It is an extremely polymorphous affection in its clinical expression that depends on the age of the subject, which necessitates establishment of diagnostic criteria. In spite of being benignity, atopic dermatitis is a chronic disease affecting negatively the quality of life of the majority of patients. The symptomatic treatment is based on topical corticosteroids and moisturizers. However, a better knowledge about its pathogenesis allows to hope for a therapeutic approach by immunomodulators, especially for the serious cases

Leiomyoma of the colon [report of a case]

Leiomyoma of the colon is an extremely rare tumor. Reports are those of sessil intraluminal lesions. We report a case of extraluminal leiomyoma of the transverse colon. The diagnosis is suspected at laparotomy and confirmation of the precise nature of the neoplasm by histologic examination

Pilonidal sinus

Pilonidal sinus is a frequent benign disease, with a localization often sacrococcygeal. Its etiopathogensis is still badly clarified. Diagnosis is generally easy in typical forms: purulent flow by an opening situated at the level of inter gluteal furrow and containing some hairs. Some diagnosis traps secondary to aberrant localizations should be known. Open surgical excision and cicatrizationnn is the treatment of choice. To this effect, we report 29 cases of pilonidal sinus operated on by this method between 1990 and 1999. This pathology occupies the fourth place of proctological diseases 75% of the patients are young, aged between 20 and 40 years. Male predominance is clear with a sex ratio H/F=1,9. Chronic purulent flow is the main symptom found in 82,23 of cases. After a retreat of one to 10 years, a case of fake recurrence has been noted. A second resection without closure has been successfully done

Resultats de la se'romyotomie ante'rieure avec vagotomie tronculaire poste'rieure dans le traitement des ulce'res duode'naux [a propps de 26 cas]

The authors report the result of anterior lesser curve seromyotomy with posterior truncal vagotomy in the treatment of duodenal ulcer, on a group of 26 patients treated between 1987 and 1994. The mean age of our patients is of 36,5 years, with a masculin predominance. 92% of our patients have been operated on for a duodenal ulcer incorrectly treated or. resistant to the medical treatment. From the 26 patients who were under study, 19 were followed-up after a period varying between 8 months and 7,5 years. The mean age is 1,7 year. There was no post operative death. The morbidity is low with 2 cases of gastro-oesophageal backward, and 2 cases of dyspeptic disturbances. 84,2% of patients who came for a follow-up visit, were graded VISICK I or II [good result]. 2 recurrent ulcers have been encountered, one was treated medically and the other has been re-operated on