[Cerebral thrombophlebitis: parotidectomy complication in a child]. / Thrombophlébite cérébrale: complication d'une parotidectomie chez un enfant.

INTRODUCTION: Onset of cerebral thrombophlebitis following parotidectomy in a child is reported. OBSERVATION: A seven-year-old boy presenting apparently benign tumefaction in the right parotid gland area had undergone a conservative right total parotidectomy. The histological examination of the operative specimen suggested a diffuse neurofibroma as part of a clinical picture of Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis. The immediate postoperative follow-up was marked by a pyramidal syndrome in the left hemibody, with the CT scan showing thrombophlebitis. After treatment combining an anticoagulant, a vasodilator and an antibiotic, the patient progressed toward partial recovery of left hemibody motor activity. COMMENTS: This cerebral vascular accident is related to the angiodysplasia encountered in Recklinghausen's disease. Anticoagulants initialized rapidly are the only demonstrated therapy to improve the prognosis in this type of complication.

[Topographical and morphological study of the mandibular foramen in black Africans from the Ivory Coast]. / Etude topographique et morphologique du foramen mentonnier chez le sujet négro-Africain de Côte d'Ivoire.

Sixty one dry mandibles. have been studied to provide some anatomical informations on the position, shape and size of the mental foramen among adults Black Africans of Ivory Coast. According the results, in the male mandibles, the mental foramen lay 27,31 mm behind the symphyses , 74,75 mm forward the post border of the ramus, 14,89 mm above the lower border and 16,16 mm under the alveolar margin. In the female mandibles, the mental foramen lay 27,16mm behind the symphysis, 69,10 mm forward the post border of the ramus, 14,21 mm above the lower border and 15,66 mm under the alveolar margin. This study confirmed that on the horizontal plane, the mental foramen lay approximatively one quarter of the distance from mandibular symphyses to the post border of the ramus. The margin of mental foramina was elliptic in 66,67 % and 64,52 % of the cases respectively in male and female mandibles. The mean sizes of the long and short axes of forarnina were 5,03 mm and 3,97 mm in the male mandibles. These dimensions were 4,99 mm and 3,87 mm in the female mandibles.

[Ameloblastoma of the maxillary sinus. Apropos of a case]. / Améloblastome du sinus maxillaire. A propos d'une observation.

The ameloblastoma is benign odontogen tumour developed from epithelial remains of MALASSEZ. Because of the inclination to invade in an inexorable way all the surrounding tissues and of the faculty of recurrence after removal, one attributes him the qualifier of good-hearted tumour to local wickedness. The mandibulary localization is the most frequent. Toward the maxillary, it is mostly observed in the tuberosity region. The authors report in the work one case of ameloblastoma developed from the pericoronal cyst of an intrasinusal ectopic canine tooth.

[Self medication during orodental diseases in urban Ivory Coast. Results of a study in the region of Abidjan]. / L'automedication au cours des affections bucco-dentaires en milieu urbain ivoirien. Résultats d'une enquête dans la région d'Abidjan.

During six months, a study enclosing 418 patients from 15 to 60 years old, has been realised in nine dental offices of the Abidjan area. Self-medication has been found among 37.32 per cent of the patients. The most concerned medicines are no steroid inflammatories, analgesics and antibiotics. According to this study, the main reasons of the self-medication are the pain, the lack of money, the practice and the fear of the dental surgeon. The medicines are obtained at the chemist's or bought at the market or in the street. The results of the study are compared to others did in different specialities.

[A plea for the rational use of anti-inflammatory agents in odontostomatology]. / Plaidoyer pour une utilisation raisonnee des anti-inflammatoires en odonto-stomatologie.

After a reminder of different anti-inflammatories drugs actions and from examples taken in the literature and their department, the authors show how these drugs can be dangerous. Without forbidding these drugs in Dental and Oral surgery, the authors precise the conditions for their prescriptions in our developing countries.

Reflexion d'une equipe pluridisciplinaire face aux problemes poses par le noma en Cote d'Ivoire

Dans ce passage; il s'agit d'un travail de reflexion; le traitement et la prevention du noma ou cancrum oris maladie infantile. Les auteurs montrent l'importance d'une equipe pluridisciplinaire composee de stomatologue; medecin reanimateur; pediatre pedodontiste; orthodontiste; et d'un prothesiste maxillo-facial. S'agissant du traitment medical aux traitement des sequelles ou de la prevention du noma; ils mettent l'accent sur la prevention car le noma declare est dans la plupart des cas est une affection hautement lethale quelles que soient l'efficacite et la competence de cette equipe pluridisciplinaire

[Burkitt's disease in the Ivory Coast in 1988]. / La maladie de Burkitt en Côte-d'Ivoire en 1988.

Burkitt's lymphoma, or endemic hematosarcoma, is the major cancer in childhood and the 6th most common cancer in the Ivory Coast. The authors review classical ideas regarding the disease and stress some recent findings.

[Pleomorphic adenoma of the salivary glands. Analysis of 41 cases and the causes of recurrence in the Ivory Coast]. / Adénomes plémorphes des glandes salivaires. Analyse de 41 cas et des causes de récidive en Côte-d'Ivoire.

Based on a study of 41 cases, the authors report the high incidence of myxo-chondroid varieties on histological examination and their relationship to recurrences attributed to potential changes in myo- epithelial cells.

[Cylindroma of the salivary glands. Various aspects apropos of 10 cases from the Ivory Coast]. / Cylindromes des glandes salivaires. Quelques aspects à propos de 10 cas observés en Côte-d'Ivoire.

It was found that accessory salivary glands involvement, in particular intra-maxillary, was most frequent in a study involving 10 cases. Only basaloid varieties have a very poor prognosis and surgery remains the only treatment available.