[Secondary liver cancer in Senegal].
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For a period of 11 years and 7 months (1st January 78-31 July 89), 1950 lymph nodes were received in the pathology laboratory of Cameroon. 333 of these, that is 17% revealed typical lesions of tuberculosis. Analysing the information associated to these tuberculoid adenitis revealed that: 46% of the patients were less than 10 years of age; 83.8% of the specimens were taken from the cervical region. 78% of patients had fever, cough was complained of by 56% and 40% had polyadenopathies. Finally, 81% of the tuberculoid lymph nodes analyzed had a diameter less than 5cm while only 33% showed acid fast bacilli on direct examination (Ziehl-Neelsen staining method) on the histologic slides.
4 anencephalics were observed at the maternity unit of the University Hospital Centre of Yaoundé in 20 months, between November 1, 1986 and June 30, 1988. 3 were male while the fourth was female. 3 of the 4 presented with hydramnios and intra-uterine death and the fourth by intra-uterine death alone. In all the 4 cases, echography showed the abnormality. Expulsion was spontaneous in one case but induced by perfusion of oxytocin in the other 3 cases. In none of the cases was there exposure to x-rays at the beginning of the pregnancy.