The child's noma in an hospital center in Burkina Faso : Clinical features and course.

In order to study the therapeutic and developing aspect the child's noma in Burkina Faso, we have undertaken a retrospective study on a ten-years-period, with the files of 59 children hospitalized in the hospital of Bobo-Dioulasso, completed with a visit to the children's families after their leaving the hospital. The medical treatment has allowed to reach a recovery rate of 79.6% at the cost of aesthetic and functional after-effects which aren't negligible. The death rate in hospital was 13.7%. 31 children have profited from the restoring surgery of lesions. The care out of hospital has showed that the surgical results were mitigated.