[Prévalence de l'infection à Helicobacter pylori et des lésions endoscopiques hautes chez les diabétiques: Etude cas/témoins]. / Prevalence of helicobacter pylori infection and gastroscopic finding in diabetic patients: a case-control study.

BACKGROUND: Current data on the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in dyspeptic diabetic patients are contradictory in the literature. AIM: the aim was to assess the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection, gastroscopic lesions, and gastric histopathological lesions, in dyspeptic diabetic patients. METHODS: It was a case-control study collecting 394 dyspeptic patients (194 diabetic and 200 nondiabetic patients). RESULTS: The average age of patients was 47 years. 144 patients (47%) were male and 150 patients (53%) were female. The two patient groups were matched for age and sex. The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection was comparable between the two groups of patients (85% in diabetics versus 90% in the controls). The frequency of gastroscopic lesions was 50% in diabetics and 55% in controls with no significant difference between the two groups. At histology, the prevalence of chronic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, and gastric atrophy was 85%, 13% and 39% respectively in the group of diabetic patients. These results were comparable to those found in patients without diabetes. CONCLUSION: Our work shows no difference between diabetics and non-diabetics on the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection, gastroscopic, and gastric histopathological lesions.

[Cervical-facial skin tuberculosis. Three case reports]. / La tuberculose cutanée cervico-faciale. A propos de trois cas.

The cervical-face skin tuberculosis is fairly uncommon pathology, it is caused by the Tuberculosis mycobacterium (or Bacille de Koch). With human or bovine origin this pathology is actually increased as like as AIDS in countries where it was eradicated. Skin lesion may be primitive or secondary to another pre-existing tuberculosis lesions, it may be have many clinical appearance with the same characteristics, as knew as, long evolution and anesthetics sequels. We report in this paper three cases of cervical-face tuberculosis with different age, the diagnosis was given by biology and histology and treated medically.