[Sickle cell anemia and surgery. Personal experiences at the Owendo Pediatric Hospital]

This work is based on 21 cases. The age varies from 1 to 15 years. The clinical manifestations are dominated by osseous painful phenomena, occurring by crisis relative to ischemic processes and infarctus, lameness and seldom a pathological fracture. Radiography ranks among the important means in the balance of the evolution and spreading of the osseous lesions. We prefer the notion of osteitis, which has its own particularities and corresponds much more to the nosology than that of osteomyelitis commonly employed.