[Hydatid cyst of the liver].
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[Post-surgical or traumatic anal incontinences. Prospective study in 40 patients explorated by endorectal ultrasonography and electromyography].
OBJECTIVES: Anal endosonography is used to assess anal canal structure and external anal sphincter. The purpose of this study was to compare findings at anal endosonography with electromyographic tests in patients with faecal incontinence. METHODS: Fourty patients (31 women; median age: 47 years) were referred for exploration of the anal sphincter: 15 patients had previous anal surgery, 16 patients had obstetrical trauma, 3 patients had accidental trauma, 6 women had obstetrical trauma and previous anal surgery. RESULTS: Anal endosonography demonstrated an external sphincter defect in 19 patients (partial n = 4, complete n = 15); 18 of these patients had an electromyographic study: an external sphincter defect was demonstrated by mapping in 15 cases; 3 partial defects were not found. Eight patients had associated pudendal nerve terminal motor latency delayed due to neuropathic impairment of pudendal nerve. Surgery was performed in 12 patients; external sphincter lesion was confirmed in all cases. CONCLUSIONS: Anal endosonography and electromyography mapping easily recognize external sphincter disruption with high concordance. Partial defects are better diagnosed by anal endosonography. A study of pudendal nerve terminal motor latency is useful in the exploration of faecal incontinence because pudendal neuropathy occurs frequently in association with a sphincter defect.
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[Surgical strategy in the association: aneurysm of the abdominal aorta and colonic lesion].
An association of an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta and a lesion of the colon raises an important question as to the correct sequence to follow. A simultaneous operation raises the major risk of infection and most authors prefer a sequential approach, treating either the aneurysm or the lesion of the colon first depending on the initial clinical situation or complications. In our first patient, both pathologies were known before surgery and simultaneous procedures were deliberately programmed. In the second case, both lesions were complicated and required simultaneous cure. In the third case, both were recognized before surgery and a sequential approach was followed--colon then abdominal aorta. In the fourth case, the colon disease was complicated and responded to medical treatment; three months later surgery was performed on the aneurysm followed by a colectomy two months later. A review of the literature and an analysis of our four cases offer a means of developing a management strategy for patients with an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta associated with a lesion of the colon.
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[Comparison of long-term course of perforating and non-perforating Crohn disease].
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the influence of the indication of the first surgical procedure on the prognosis of Crohn's disease. METHODS: We compared retrospectively the long-term course of 179 patients operated on for a perforating disease and 322 patients operated on for a nonperforating disease. Mean follow-up was 11 years and 2 months in the two groups. RESULTS: Forty of 179 (25%) and 106 of 322 (33%) patients with perforating and nonperforating diseases underwent a second intestinal resection, respectively. The patients who had been operated on for a perforating disease were significantly more often reoperated on for the same indication, and conversely. Patients with perforating diseases experienced less second resections (actuarial rates: 37 +/- 11% vs 51 +/- 8% at ten years respectively), less post-surgical handicaps (mean index 24.9 vs 27.9), and fewer patients required immunosuppressive drugs (25 vs 35%). CONCLUSION: Long-term prognosis of perforating Crohn's disease does not appear to be more severe than that of nonperforating disease.
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