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F Mercier

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PubMed1979

[Smoking habit at school. First habit at school. First results of a survey done in Marseille and its suburbs (author's transl)].

The authors report the first results of a transversal survey done from the end of November 1976 to the end of April 1977 in 4 secondary schools (CES, CEG) in Marseille and its suburbs. 1.795 children, between 11 and 15, in the first and fourth form, filled up a questionary inquiring into their smoking habits and consumption. Already a certain number of results can be drawn: --in this group of children, mostly girls (926 G/882 B) 181 were regular smokers (10,07%); --among these smokers, 70 smoked every day (38,6%), 60 smoked more than a packet a week (33%), finally 122 inhaled smoke; --they acquired the habit of smoking regularly between the age of 14 and 15, in the 3rd and 4th forms, as there was only 9,4% of smokers in the 3rd and 19% in the 4th form; --finally, parents seem to play a fundamental inducing part in this habit, as among smoking children 32.8% have parents both smoking, 41% a smoking mother, 71.2% a smoking father, while for non smokers the percentage were respectively of 19.9%, 24.9% and 54.3%.

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[Injuries to the abdominal aorta during laparoscopy].

Member surgeons of the Société de Chirurgie vasculaire de Langue française participated in a survey concerning traumatic injury to the aorta and retrospectively reported nine cases of injury occurring during laparoscopic operations. Six had occurred in 1991 when video-laparoscopic surgery was becoming widespread. The laparoscopy had been indicated as a diagnostic procedure in 4 cases and for curative treatment in 5. Gynaecology disease were involved in 4 cases and digestive diseases in 5. Injury was reported near the aortic bifurcation or at the origin of the common right iliac artery. Concomitant injury to the small intestine (1 case) and to the mesentery (n = 3) were also reported. No venous injury was observed. Haemodynamic collapsus was the presenting sign and occurred early in 6 cases and late in 2. In 1 case, the haemorrhage occurred during the laparoscopic procedure itself and in another blood loss was visualized through the needle. An unsuccessful and unneeded procedure had been performed before the diagnosis in 4 cases: on splenectomy, two mesenteric dissections and one subcostal laparotomy after cholecystectomy. In all cases, the vascular surgeon had been called in by the operating surgeon and most often operated via the xypho-pubien route. After clamping the aorta, the vascular lesions was sutured. There was one death, directly related to late diagnosis. The frequency of injury to the abdominal aorta found in the literature and the difficulties in diagnosis was recalled. Mortality has been reported to vary between 13 and 23%. Such complications demonstrate the need for a rigorous technique but do not counterindicate the continued use of laparoscopic procedures.

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