background: endometriosis is a chronic and progressive gynecological disorder and is manifest by dysmenorrhea and a major cause of infertility and chronic pelvic pain. the study was designed to compare the value of cervico-vaginal fluid of interleukin-1? (il-1?) in patients with and without endometriosis. materials and methods: fifty women were assessed in this case control study. the case grou...

OBJECTIVE To define the potential value of endocervical length at 11 to 13 weeks' gestation in the prediction of spontaneous early delivery. METHOD The lengths of the endocervix and cervico-isthmic complex were measured by transvaginal ultrasound at 11 to 13 weeks in singleton pregnancies, including 1492 that subsequently delivered after 34 weeks and 16 (1.1%) who had spontaneous delivery bef...

Résumé Introduction: Notre objectif a été d'établir le panorama des cancers primitifs oto-rhino-laryngologiques et cervico-maxillo-faciaux dans un service de référence au Togo. Méthodes: Il s’est agi d’une étude rétrospective descriptive, portant sur les cancers diagnostiqués dans le service d’ORL et de chirurgie cervico-maxillo-faciale du CHU Sylvanus Olympio de Lomé. Elle a été réalisée sur u...

The objective of this work was to analyze the predisposing factors, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of cervico-facial cellulitis on pregnancies and to determine maternal-fetal prognosis. We conducted a longitudinal observational descriptive study from January 2011 to March 2013 including records from pregnant women with cervicofacial cellulitis treated at the Oto-Rhino-Laryngology (ORL) and ...

Brainstem gliomas are rare primary brain tumours which most commonly occur in the midbrain and pons. Malignant gliomas and tumours at the cervico-medullary junction are particularly unusual. The diagnosis of tumours at this site is particularly difficult using computed tomographic (CT) scanning owing to artifacts around the base of the skull. Intrinsic tumours of the cervico-medullary junction ...

INTRODUCTION Over the last decades, several definitions and classifications of cervico-mediastinal goiters and thyroid masses have been proposed. We analyze and discuss the clinical presentation, the diagnostic procedures and the surgical technique in relation to post-operative complications and results in cervico-mediastinal thyroid masses admitted in our Clinic of Thoracic Surgery over a peri...

AIM Childhood meningiomas are scarce in clinical practice with an incidence ranging from 0.4 to 4.6% of all pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors. Cervico-occipital meningiomas account for 3.7% of childhood meningiomas and are slightly more frequent in male. RESULTS A 5-year-old female presented with febrile posterior cervico-occipital pain for 3 weeks. She was diagnosed with meningit...

BACKGROUND Although cervico-vaginal epithelial cells of the female lower genital tract provide the initial defense system against HIV-1 infection, the protection is sometimes incomplete. Thus, enhancing anti-HIV-1 humoral immunity at the mucosal cell surface by local expression of anti-HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibodies (BnAb) that block HIV-1 entry would provide an important new interventio...