[Role of echotomography in the diagnosis of renal masses. Comparative study with computerized tomography, arteriography and anatomopathological studies (100 cases)]. / Place de l'échotomographie dans le diagnostic des masses rénales. Etude comparative avec la tomodensitométrie, l'artériographie et l'examen anatomo-pathologique (cent cas).

The authors have selected a series of 100 recent cases of solid and fluid-filled tumors, all of which were explored by nephro-urotomography and ultrasound. These two procedures constituted the basis of the examination. In case of doubt, they had recourse to CT scans. They consider that arteriography is likely to become exceptional.

[Gynecomastia and cancer of the bladder: an ectopic secretion of chorionic gonadotropin hormone]. / Gynécomastie et cancer de la vessie: mise en évidence d'une sécrétion ectopique d'hormone gonadotrophine chorionique.

Among the paraneoplastic endocrine syndromes, gynecomastia induced by an ectopic production of human chorionic gonadotrophin remains infrequent. The authors report the case of a fifty-year-old man presenting with a bilateral gynecomastia which had been evolving over three months. The etiological investigation was rapidly guided by a macroscopic hematuria. Intravenous nephro-urotomographies visualized a filling defect in the bladder, and a grade III stage A urothelial carcinoma was completely resected cystoscopically, leading to progressive disappearance of the gynecomastia. Hormonal investigation revealed an ectopic production of HCG, inducing hyperestrogenia.

[Return to work after reconstructive arterial surgery (author's transl)]. / Etude de la reprise de l'activité professionnelle des sujets ayant subi une restauration artérielle.

The authors studied the conditions of the return to work of 65 patients, with a maximum age of 55 years, after reconstructive arterial surgery. Of the 51 patients who were working at the time of the operation, 46 (90.2%) had started working after an average period of 97 days, but only one of the patients who were no longer working started work after the operation. If the nature and more especially the site of the operation is analyzed, the highest level of return to work was after aorto-iliac surgery (96,4%), with a lower level (81%) after femorotibial operations. In a small group of 6 patients operated upon for aneurysms (of which 5 were aneuryms of the abdominal aorta), 4 had started work again, but after a longer period of 4 months on average. These results are compared with those obtained by a British team in Newcastle (Waters, Proud, and Chamberlain) who conducted a similar study in 1977. These overall results prove that reconstructive arterial surgery is favourable from the social and occupational point of view, as very large proportion of the operated patients continue working, and some of them start work again after having stopped their occupation before the operation.