title: [Emergency surgery in Africa (does tropical emergency exist?)].
abstract: Most patients admitted to African surgical departments require emergency procedures. Etiologies involve a wide variety of diseases that are only rarely tropical. However the poor general status of patients and underdeveloped sanitary conditions can alter symptomatic presentation and require modified surgical techniques. The adverse conditions under which in the southern hemisphere is now performed will not change without improvement in general living standards and health-care infrastructure of the countries involved.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie Viscérale, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées A. Laveran, 13998 Marseille Armées, France.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Andreu
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D003906:Developing Countries; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D012923:Social Class; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014330:Tropical Medicine