CE Canine anal furunculosis (perianal fistula) is a chronic disease of the perianal, anal, and/or rectal tissue characterized by the presence of ulcerative tracts.The specific cause of this debilitating disease is unknown and continues to be controversial. Nevertheless, a multifactorial immune-mediated mechanism is suspected. Diagnosis is usually straightforward in German shepherds presenting w...

Muscular hypertrophy of the internal anal sphincter in association with proctalgia was first described a few years ago, but has remained largely unnoticed (1-4). In some cases autosomal-dominant inheritance has been demonstrated. Physical examination identifies an enlarged anal sphincter, which sometimes the patient has already noticed. This muscular mass may mimic an anal tumor and even hamper...

BACKGROUND Women with an obstetric anal sphincter injury are concerned about the risk of recurrent obstetric anal sphincter injury in their second pregnancy. Existing studies have failed to clarify whether the recurrence of obstetric anal sphincter injury affects the risk of anal and fecal incontinence at long-term follow-up. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to evaluate whether recurr...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether anal intercourse is a risk factor for anal HPV infection in women. DESIGN Results derived from clinical examination, anal cytology and HPV DNA hybridisation were correlated with data obtained from a questionnaire administered to the patients at the time of their clinical examination. SETTING A sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinic in Sydney, Australia. ...

Arthropods include a high diversity of lineages adapted for silk production. Several species microscopic phytophagous mites the hyperdiverse superfamily Eriophyoidea spin web; however, origin their is unknown. We described new web-spinning mite, Aberoptus schotiae n. sp., collected from leaves Schotia brachypetala (Fabaceae) in South Africa and showed that it has complex life cycle, including t...

Objective: Perianal abscesses occur as a result of an infection in the anal gland due to obstruction ducts opening crypts. Preoperative use MRI reduces risk recurrence, fistula formation, and postoperative fecal incontinence it allows detailed anatomical imaging. The aim this study is investigate contribution preoperative reducing recurrence surgical complications patients who underwent emergen...

We report the case of a 49-year-old woman who presented a tailgut cyst lined by a variety of epithelium including squamous, columnar and transitional. Fortuitously a microscopic carcinoid tumor expressing immunohistochemically neuroendocrine markers was identified in the cystic wall. Tailgut cysts are congenital abnormalities located in the presacrococcygeal area occurring usually in adult pati...

During a study on 500 dogs in Ibadan, 136 (27·2%) were found to be anaemic. Fifty-two of these were associated purely with blood parasites, twentyone with hookworm infection, while ten were associated with a mixture of blood parasitism and hookworm infection. Seventeen cases were associated with various conditions such as traumatic wounds, transmissible venereal tumour, nephritis, taeniasis, an...