Spontaneous regression of malignant lymphoma. Case report and review of the literature.

This article reports on an exceptional case of spontaneous regression of a malignant lymphoma of intermediate type with three localizations in the same patient. A review of the literature concerning the immunologic approaches to cancer have been considered and attempts to explain the host response to neoplasms and its defense mechanisms against them, were considered.

[Fibroma of the tunica albuginea. Apropos of a case]. / Fibrome de la tunique albuginée. A propos d'un cas.

Fibroma of the tunica albuginea is a rare, benign lesion. Only twenty cases have been published. We have observed one case a solitary testis of a 40 years old patient. The treatment performed was enucleation. The interest of this case consists in the rarity of the case and the operative solution proposed. After a review of the literature, we summarise the characteristics of this disease.

[Familial paroxysmal polyserositis. Previously unpublished peritoneal complications. A case]. / Polysérite paroxystique familiale. Complications péritonéales inédites. Une observation.

A young unmarried Lebanese woman presenting with periodic disease (familial paroxysmal polyserositis) since she was 3 months old developed recurrent abundant ascites at the age of 21 years. Several hundred millilitres of strongly eosinophilic fluid were evacuated. Exploratory laparotomy unexpectedly disclosed an encapsulating peritonitis with adhesions involving the small bowel and the ascending colon; there were masses of lipid-laden cells, clusters of cholesterol/crystals and marked mesoepithelial reaction. In view of the patient's dramatic response to colchicine 2 mg/day, these findings were regarded as being related to the periodic disease.