[Retrocervical cystic hygroma. Ultrasonic diagnosis. Apropos of 5 cases]. / L'hygroma kystique rétrocervical. Un diagnostic échographique. A propos de cinq observations.

The authors report five ultrasonic imaging between 13 and 32 weeks of gestation. All of them have an hydrops fetalis and an aspect of like masses located in the nuchal region. A cystic retrocervical hygroma was confirmed at autopsy examination in three cases. The diagnosis of cystic hygroma remains inaccurate in the other two cases in the lack of the radiographic and anatomical verification. A review of the literature was made up to define the diagnostic aspects of the hygroma colli, their histological aspects and the mains etiological factors.

[Massive edema of the ovary: apropos of a case]. / Oedème massif de l'ovaire: à propos d'un cas.

A case of massive ovarian oedema is reported with a review of the literature. We would like to point out the value of thinking about the diagnosis of massive ovarian oedema when confronted with an ovary that seems to contain a tumour and to ask for frozen-section examination. By doing this the diagnosis can be made and the ovary preserved after the torsion has been dealt with in a young girl who is usually nulligravida.