Search PubMed⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

A Carayon

Publications and source records attributed to A Carayon.

At least 271 records · Page 15Linked to original sources
PubMedDate not supplied

[Osteoarticular lesions in leprosy (experience 1960-1982)].

Bone changes are frequent in leprosy involving small distal bones of the limbs and, in advanced cases, some cranial bones. The various kinds of osteitis and their radiologic features are described as well as the arthritis to which they can give way. These changes may result directly from the infection by M. leprae indirectly through nerve damage and also by pyogenic infections. The therapeutic tactic is discussed according to this approach of the various types of bones and joint damage.

Arthritis, Infectious↗
PubMedDate not supplied

[Genital tuberculosis in African female patients (author's transl)].

Genital tuberculosis in 76 Senegalese women and 82 Nigerian women, have been compiled from statistical tables covering a period of 10 years. The authors present the features of genital tuberculosis in african females. In most cases, diagnosis is made through peroperative findings or anatomo-pathological control of exeresis specimens; still, biopsy of endometrium, systematically performed on each patient consulting for sterility, gave opportunity to detect an important number of cases of genital tuberculosis in Nigeria. The frequency of this disease is low among other unspecific genital infections. Its medical treatment is effective on tuberculous infection but not on sterility which is an unavoidable sequella.

Adolescent↗
PubMedDate not supplied

[Osteo-articular tuberculosis in African (author's transl)].

General, clinical and therapeutic features of osteo-articular tuberculosis in African, excluding vertebral localizations, are compiled from 81 records: The are: -- a frequency lower than in expatriated Africans and this indicates their special physical resistance when they live in their natural environment; -- frequently an easy diagnosis because of infected advanced foci with associated lesions; -- a surgical indication (curettage, resection, arthrodesis) as frequent as in vertebral localizations.

Adolescent↗
PubMedDate not supplied

[Pott's disease in African (author's transl)].

A study of anatomical clinical, and therapeutic features of Pott's disease in Africans from 131 cases treated by the same team and compiled from the principal series published during the last ten years in Black Africa. Anatomical features are related to the frequency of the disease (70 p. 100 of tuberculous osteo-arthritis), the elective lumbodorsal localization involving several vertebrae (gpenerally 3 or 4) and being sometimes multifocal. Clinical features are in part explained by the delay with which patients report to the hospital for the first time so that 80 to 90 p. 100 of the patients suffer from severe lesions (which are in their destructive phase in 30 p. 100 of the cases), with associated-complications (gibbosity, abcess, 50 p. 100; fistulae, 2 to 6 p. 100; paraplegie 23 to 25 p. 100; multiplefoci, 4 to 13 p. 100). Diagnostic difficulty mainly raised by "False Pott's diseases" (P. Bourrel), is considered. Therapeutics is studied; importance and place of the surgical treatment is emphasized; its various approaches are discussed. The authors report their surgical interventions on 89 patients out of 181 admitted: 64 direct approaches for simple Pott (with 70 p. 100 of good results and 20 p. 100 of satisfactory results), 25 operations for complicated cases of Pott (18 approaches for antero-lateral decompression and 5 laminectomies, with 22 satisfactory results).

Adolescent↗