The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of the antibiotic treatment, including the mode of drugs administration, on bitches' attractiveness to the stud dogs during mating. Moreover, we tried to estimate the possibility of aversive effect of the drug vehicle on the male behavior. In experiment I, four bitches in oestrus without antibiotic treatment (group A), four bitches treated wit...

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Fournier’s gangrene is a life-threatening soft-tissue infection of the perineum requiring radical soft-tissue debridement and antibiotic therapy. We report a 24-year follow-up of a patient with Fournier’s gangrene treated with subcutaneous unilateral testicle implantation following contralateral orchiectomy and radical debridement. Hormonal testicular function was preserved despite the subcutan...

Aggressive angiomyxoma is a locally mesenchymal, benign, and rare neoplasm. The vulva, perineum, and pelvis are the most common sites of involvement. The preoperative diagnosis is postulated by CT, sonography, MR image and angiography. The immunohistochemical study reveals the definitive diagnosis. The therapy is only surgical, and because of its tendency to recur locally, the excision has to b...

A previously healthy 28-year-old G1P1 Asian woman presented with a 1-year history of a painful palpable lesion arising within the left perineum. Histopathology revealed multiple endometriotic foci composed of endometrial glands and moderate dense stroma, surrounded by dense fibro-elastic tissue. This patient was diagnosed as endometriosis and the endometriotic mass was excised under local anaes...

Hidradenitis suppurativa of the apocrine sweat glands, described in 1839 by Velpeau [I], is a chronic disease characterized by painful recurrent abscesses, draining fistulas, and scarring in the axillae, groin, perineum, perirectal region, and other areas. Herein, we review our 15 year experience in treating advanced hidradenitis suppurativa to delineate the nature of the disease and to outline...

INTRODUCTION Vacuum-assisted wound closure therapy has widely been used in various clinical applications with successful results and has considerably increased in popularity over the past decade. The patient who sustained a complex war wound to his perineum has been presented. METHODS After the initial treatment he was discharged from the hospital in which he had been treated for 4 days in Ir...