[Vertebral hydatidosis [Report of 22 cases]]

Hydatidosis affects the bone in 0.5 to 2% of cases, with 44% of these cases involving the spine. To describe the radiological characteristics of spinal hydrated. This retrospective study about 22 patients [14 men and 8 women] aged between 10 and 63 years old. The mean age was 29 years, they were explored by conventional explorations in 22 cases, myelography in 12 cases, computed tomography in 15 cases and magnetic resonance imaging in 3 cases. Imagning showed multicystic bony lesions. Thoracic involvement was present in 13 cases, lumbar involvement in 5 cases, cervical in 2 cases and sacral involvement in 2 cases. The process involved 2 adjacent vertebrae in 4 cases, 3 adjacent vertebrae in 5 cases, 4 adjacent vertebrae in 2 cases and the entite sacrum in 2 cases. Vertebral collapse was noted in 3 cases. The extension into the spinal canal was noted in 5 cases. Other sites of involvement were also noted, especially in liver and spleen. The presence of multicystic vertebral lesions with involvement adjacent soft tissues should raise the possibility of spinal hydatidosis in endemic countries

[Mothers knowledge and practicise of the growth monitoring and children growth]

In order to sensitize mothers in promoting their children's good nutritional status by a nutritional education system, an inquiry realised during the summer of 1990 about 100 mothers of children under 5 years of age permitted the evaluation of the level of mothers knowledge and practices. It was noticed: The non agreement of the mothers impression with the reality of their children's nutritional status [30%]. The uselessness, according to mothers, of continuing the monitoring of growth chart after one year [30%], and after two years [28%]. Weight gain by weighing represented only one among many other indicators of good growth. Concerning the means of acquiring child's good growth, although the majority of mothers stated the illnesses [88,6%] and the insufficient nutrition [84,5] as the main causes of bad growth few of them mentioned vaccinations [4%] and prolonged breastfeeding [5%], no mother stated the pregnants and the nurses good nutrition, nor progressive weaning; The unrecognition of the usefulness[67%], the interest, and the way of using the growth chart. Sixty-one per cent [61%] of mothers did not weigh their children regularly. Even in the case of weighing, the mother was given neither explications nor information's concerning the nutritional status of their child professionals of health. Mothers education in growth monitoring domain is a necessity. Improvement of the communication's quality between professionals of health and mothers is an urgency