[Launois-Bensaude disease. Apropos of 2 new cases]. / Maladie de Launois-Bensaude. A propos de deux nouveaux cas.

Data relating to Launois-Bensaude disease are reviewed and two cases reported. Both patients were dyspneic, one of them presenting preoperative trachea deviation, a complication reported in only about 2% of cases documented in the literature. Dissection of these non-encapsulated fatty tumors is difficult and can lead to complications, but surgical excision remains the only possible treatment.

Endoscopic resection of an endobronchial hypernephroma metastasis using a polypectomy snare.

A 69 yr old male patient developed an acute respiratory distress. The emergency bronchoscopic examination showed a polypoid tumour obstructing the left main bronchus. A snare used for colorectal polypectomy was introduced through the bronchofibrescope to remove the tumour. The patient then dramatically improved. No side effects were observed. Histopathological examination showed metastasis from a hypernephroma. This simple technique is useful for bronchial deobstruction, when the tumour is accessible with a snare.

[Costolumbar pain, aneurysm of the renal artery and hypertension]. / Douleur costo-lombaire, anévrysme de l'artère rénale et hypertension.

Thrombosis of a renal artery aneurysm had provoked renal atrophy and secondary renovascular hypertension in a patient in whom rapid diagnosis was not possible from the abdominal symptomatology and results of biological tests. Investigation of lumbar pain should therefore include an IVU with or without subsequent renal arteriography, the rapid execution of these examinations being of primordial importance. Treatment was by nephrectomy, which allowed hypertension to be controlled and risks related to the aneurysm avoided.