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Psychiatric disorders in burn victims are well known and studied, but few articles treat the impact of pre-existing psychiatric pathologies on the evolution of burns. The aim of our study is to compare the evolution in terms of complications, length of stay and survival between patients with and without pre-existing mental disorders. This is a bi-centric case-control study (N = 92), conducted at the Plastic Surgery Department of Rabat University Hospital, and the Plastic Surgery Department of the Tangier-Morocco Regional Hospital, between January 2012 and February 2018. Characteristics of the patients were collected and two groups of patients were identified and compared (n = 67): a preexisting mental disorder group (n = 22) and a control group (n = 45). TBSA (total body surface area) burned and 2nd and 3rd degree burned TBSA were significantly greater in the group with a history of mental disorders compared to the control group (p = 0.012, p <0.001, p = 0.014). Mean length of stay before discharge was greater (p = 0.005). Finally, mortality in the group with pre-existing mental illness was 31.8% versus 6.7% in the control group (p = 0.011). Patients with pre-existing mental disorders seem to present worse burns and need more time to recover from them, resulting in higher morbidity and mortality and a higher cost of care. The systematic screening of burned patients in search of a psychiatric diagnosis and early management of these disorders could improve the prognosis and quality of life of these patients.
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The traditional brazier remains a means of cooking and warming for thousands of families in isolated rural areas in Morocco. From simple burns due to accidental contact to limb carbonizations, these burns are all the more serious when they are secondary to epileptic seizures or carbon monoxide poisoning. The sequelae are important in the associated forms, mainly because of delay in management and non-adherence to therapeutic protocols by patients of low socioeconomic status.
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Notre objectif a ete de rapporter les criteres de diagnostic d'orientation des cancers de la thyroide dans les conditions de la pratique en zone sahelienne. Ce travail s'etait base surl'analyse de dossiers de 29 personnes porteurs de cancer de la thyroide; vus dans le serice d'Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie (ORL) de l'hopital Gabriel Toure de Bamako au Mali; de janvier 2002 a decembre 2007. Trois symptomes ont constitue le motif de consultation : tumefaction cervicale dure (21 as) evoluant depuis plus de 10 ans; presence de signes de compression (dysphonie :5 cas; dyspnee :3; dysphasie : 1) et des adenopathies cervicales (6 cas). La confirmation histologique du diagnostic a ete faite par analyse du produit cytoponction ou d'une piece operatoire. Le traitement majeur a ete le geste chirurgical dont l'analyse de la piece operatoire a permis de connaitre le diagnostic positif. L'orientation diagnostique pre-therapeutique a montre ainsi sa place preponderante dans un contexte d'absence d'exonne extemporane
