[Primitive psoas abscess in children; diagnostic difficulties and non surgical treatment: apropos of 2 cases]. / Abcès primitif du psoas chez l'enfant, difficultés diagnostiques et traitement non chirurgical: à propos de 2 cas.

From an analysis of two files of children carriers of primitive psoas abscess, the authors report the difficulties of diagnosis due to the rarity of this affection and the similarities of its symptomatology with ostearthritis of the hip which is a common pathology at the pediatric surgery unit of C.H.U. Yopougon (Republic of Côte d'Ivoire). A non surgical treatment made of antibiotherapy and traction fixed in the axis of the limb is proposed, since it helped the two patients who had presented an echographical stage II of psoas abcess to recover without after-effects.