Morphotypes du pied de l'Ivoirien et incidence sur certaines affections des orteils

Ce present travail a pour objet d'une part de determiner le morphotype du pied de l'ivoirien base sur la longueur comparee des orteils et d'autre part d'apprecier son incidence sur certaines affections des orteils. Cette etude s'est realisee sur une population de 1041 personnes comprenant 540 hommes et 501 femmes. Dans cette approche epidemiologique; les auteurs notent que le pied egyptien est le morphotype dominant (58;60 pour cent) quelque soit le sexe et le groupe ethnique

[Dupuytren's contracture: review of the literature. Case report of a black African]. / La maladie de Dupuytren: revue de la litterature. A propos d'un cas chez l'Africain noir.

In one case of Dupuytren's contracture the authors make an important literature review. The affection is rare with the black man but frequent in caucasian population. Its origin is therefore european. They point out alcoholism and microtrauma due to the patient's antecedents and job.

[Microsurgery in revascularizations and replantations of the upper extremity in emergency cases. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. University Hospital Center of Treichville-Abidjan]. / La microchirurgie dans les revascularisations et les réplantations du membre supérieur en urgence. Département de chirurgie plastique et reconstructrice Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Treichville - Abidjan.

The authors report their experience in vascular and nervous microsurgery. They remark that there is a long time between the emergency reception of the wounded person and the appeal to plastic surgery. They deplore also the bad collaboration between the different department of emergency surgery. Finally they emphasize that the scarcity of cases is due to insufficient information of different departments of emergency surgery in microsurgery era.

[Semilunar dislocations. A report of 8 cases. (Orthopedic service-University Hospital Center of Treichville-Abidjan)]. / Les luxations du semi-lunaire. A propos de 8 observations. (Service Orthopédie-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Treichville-Abidjan).

The authors have underlined in a study made on 8 observations that the lunate dislocation is scar. All their patients were men under 40 years old. Industrial injury was the most dominant cause. Using WITVOET and ALLIEU's classification, they noticed a predominance of perilunar and posterior dislocations (7/8 cases). Perilunar anterior dislocations and isolated scaphoid carpal dislocation have not been encountered. The treatment which has been orthopaedic or surgical has given moderate results: Good results = 4; Average result = 1; Bad results = 2; Non seen to again = 1 The authors think that a precocious diagnosis and an orthopaedic treatment in the forms detected early and surgical treatment in ancient forms are the only guarantee of a good functional result avoiding dread diseases such as carpal instability, radiocarpal arthrosis.