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P L Girard

Publications and source records attributed to P L Girard.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1976

[Cerebral metastasis in Blacks in Senegal].

Twenty-six brain-metastases in black patients, appearing for most of them as primitive, were observed during a period of 11 years in the Neurological Clinic of the Fann U.H.C. in Dakar. They represent 13.9% of brain-tumours and 11.81% of intracranial space occupying lesions. Their etiology is very diversified: lung cancer (4, 15.4%); breast (0); liver (3, 11.5%); digestive tract (3, 11.5%); prostate gland (1); ovaries (1); parotid gland (1); thyroid gland (2); lympho-reticulosarcoma (2); melano-sarcoma (1); chorio carcinoma (3); undetermined (5, 11.5%). This series enables us to appreciate differences with African statistics, which are not numerous and with other foreign statistics. The difference of division of cancer in Africa, particularly in Senegal, explains some results such as the relative high frequency of liver-cancer in the etiology of this metastasis. But it is surprising to learn that lung-cancer is frequent and breast-cancer absent. Also to be marked is the non-negligible influence of the choriocarcinoma metastasis. Progress in approaching diagnosis, by developing scintigraphy, might facilitate extraction of solitary metastasis more often.

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PubMed1976

[Giant cell granulomatous angiitis of the central nervous system].

The case is described of a coloured woman of 58, previously affected by filaria, who presented with meningo-encephalitis which proved fatal within a month. Pathological anatomy showed granylomatous angiitis with giant cells scattered throughout the brain and the meninges but confined exclusively to the nervous system. Biological and anatomopathological tests were unable to connect this condition with any precise aetiology. The aetiology of granulomatous angiitis is discussed in this connection and the clinical and anatomopathological charateristics peculiar to giant cell granulomatous angiitis of the nervous system are recalled.

Arteritis↗