BACKGROUND Cellulite is a serious cosmetic concern for most of the 90% of women affected by it. OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical efficacy of a complex integral anti-cellulite gel. METHODS This double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study involved 44 healthy women, aged 25-55 years. Subjects had a normal to slightly overweight body mass index and presented slight to moderate cellulite ...

Anal dilatation in response to gentle parting of the buttocks has been advocated as a sign of sexual abuse in children, but nothing is known of the physiology of this response or its existence in normal subjects, in patients with spinal disease, and in patients with a weak sphincter and whether it can be elicited after training. To answer these questions we investigated the effect of parting th...

For individuals with a spinal cord injury (SCI) who depend on a wheelchair for mobility, sitting-acquired pressure ulcers (PUs) are a common and life-endangering complication. In the short time following an SCI, pathoanatomical and pathophysiological changes that affect the weight-bearing tissues of the buttocks may increase the risk for PUs, exposing this already-at-risk population to the addi...

Pyoderma gangrenosum is a rare, inflammatory, chronic and recurrent disease of unknown etiology, characterized by noninfectious, necrotizing and painful cutaneous ulcers. Usually it affects adults aged between 25 and 54 years old and rarely children (less than 4%), in which it mainly affects the head, face, buttocks, genital and perianal region. The disease presents a quick response to systemic...

Background: The buttock is an extremely important area in woman's sexuality and the surgery to improve their appearance is gaining more space in the media and in our offices, stimulated by technical advances and improvements of the results obtained with the use of fills, prosthesis, fat graft, gluteoplasty and even a combination of these methods. 2 3 The authors present a concept of modeling th...

We herein report a patient who came to the hospital because of a polyarticular joint pain, fever and cutaneous lesions. She had silicone implants in her buttocks, a surgery performed 3 years before. We made a biopsy of the skin of the buttocks (facticial panniculitis due to silicone) and of the pretibial surface of the inferior extremities (erythema nodosum). A chest X- ray and a CT scan reveal...

A 69-year-old man presented with a few years’ history of nodules on the buttocks. Past history included chronic renal failure controlled with haemodialysis for 19 years and a decompression operation for carpal tunnel syndrome. Physical examination revealed a red-brown pediculated nodule 50×20 mm in diameter on the sacral region (Fig. 1A). In addition, 120×80 mm elastic, hard subcutaneous masses...

a site for elephantiasis one never comes across in any textbook of surgery and must be rare. Case report A Hindu widow, aged 45 years, was. admitted into Khulna Sadar Hospital on 23rd November, 1945, with a huge swelling over both of her buttocks which, according to her, gradually increased within a course of three to four years. The cause of her seeking hospital help was that the swelling was ...