Use of negative pressure wound therapy after vulvar carcinoma: case studies.

Surgery is widely used to treat vulvar cancer. However, postoperative complications after a vulvectomy can occur in 26-85 % of the cases. Here, the authors describe a complete radical vulvectomy with bilateral inguinal lymph node dissection performed in two patients. Both patients developed infection and wound breakdown postoperatively. Due to failure of local care, negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) was started to reduce bacterial rates and tension on wound edges. Accelerated tissue healing was observed in both cases, as well as an improvement in the patients' quality of life.

Children and screens: Groupe de Pédiatrie Générale (Société française de pédiatrie) guidelines for pediatricians and families.

The Groupe de Pédiatrie Générale (General Pediatrics Group), a member of the Société française de pédiatrie (French Pediatrics Society), has proposed guidelines for families and doctors regarding children's use of digital screens. A number of guidelines have already been published, in particular by the French Academy of Sciences in 2013 and the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2016. These new guidelines were preceded by an investigation into the location of digital screen use by young children in France, a survey of medical concerns on the misuse of digital devices, and a review of their documented benefits. The Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (Higher Council on Audiovisual Technology) and the Union Nationale de Associations Familiales (National Union of Family Associations) have taken part in the preparation of this document. Five simple messages are proposed: understanding without demonizing; screen use in common living areas, but not in bedrooms; preserve time with no digital devices (morning, meals, sleep, etc.); provide parental guidance for screen use; and prevent social isolation.

[Familial epithelioma of Ferguson-Smith about two familial cases]. / Epithéliomatose familiale de Ferguson-Smith. A propos de 2 cas familiaux

Two cases of multiple self-healing epithelioma (Ferguson-Smith) are reported in a French family. This dermatosis has been present since the age of 30 in both father and son. The father aged 66 years, farmer, had suffered since 1939 from recurrent spontaneously healing tumors of the face and neck, with deeply pitted scars on the face. He was treated during fifteen years in a cancer institute for multiple well-differentiated " squamous cell carcinoma " on the neck, face, and tongue; local recurrence did not occur after treatment of the active tumors and there was no clinical evidence of secondary lymphnode involvement. His son, aged 30, teacher, came in July with a papular active tumour on the cheek, which was surgically removed; his face and ears soon became affected. In the two cases, numerous biopsies showed in the early stage a great down growth of the epidermis with a central horny plug, like in keratotic papules or small kerato-acan-thomas and in more active lesions, typical appearances of squamous cell epithelioma grade I. The familial incidence is proved in the majority of the 30 cases reported since the first description by Ferguson-Smith in 1934. Only caucasians are concerned, most of them being Scottish. There is no sex predominance. First changes generally occur in young adults on light exposed areas but mucous membranes can be affected. The individual lesions last for several months, but fresh ones appear continuously, so that the disease remains extensive. The cause of these tumors is still unknown; histological and ultrastructural findings cannot explain this condition. Our ultrastructural study is parallel to previous works and fails to find viral particles in keratinocyte nuclei or cytoplasma.