Schistosomus reflexus (SR) is a rare and fatal congenital disorder. Primarily observed in ruminants, its defining features include spinal inversion, exposure of the abdominal viscera because of a fissure of the ventral abdominal wall, limb ankylosis, positioning of the limbs adjacent to the skull and, lung and diaphragm hypoplasia. Variable components of SR include scoliosis, cleft sternum, exp...

Fournier's gangrene (FG) is rapidly progressing acute gangrenous infection of the anorectal and urogenital area. FG needs precocious diagnosis and aggressive treatment with the use of wide spectrum antibioticus and surgical debridement. In our case, a 91-year-old Japanese female who had rehabilitation after treatment of pneumonia and her past history was rheumatoid arthritis treated with steroi...

BACKGROUND Mycoplasma genitalium causes urogenital diseases in men and women and is presumed to be sexually transmitted. We wanted to investigate whether spermatozoa could serve as vectors for M.genitalium in order to cause upper genital diseases in women. METHODS By use of Nomarski light microscopy and transmission X-ray microscopy, the attachment of M.genitalium to spermatozoa was studied. ...

Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich (HWW) syndrome is an uncommon combined müllerian duct anomalies (MDAs) and mesonephric duct malformation of female urogenital tract characterized by uterus didelphys and obstructed hemi-vagina and ipsilateral renal agenesis (OHVIRA) syndrome. We present a rare and unusual case of this syndrome in a 19 year-old female who suffered from hypomenorrhoea and abdominal pain. ...

Hydrometrocolpos Urogenital sinus Multiple malformations Abstract A case of hydrometrocolpos with vaginal opening to the bladder is presented. A newborn female presented abdominal distention and postaxial polydactyly at birth. Clinical investigation revealed hydrometrocolpos, precocious puberty, urogenital sinus and other multiple malformations. The vagina was open to the bladder with a small o...

Reiter's syndrome most frequently presents with abacterial urethritis, conjunctivitis, and polyarthritis. It is of uncertain aetiology and occurs either as a sequel to venereally transmitted urogenital infection or after dysentery. The syndrome is much more common in the male (97 per cent of Csonka's series of 300 cases reported in 1966) though greater difficulties of diagnosis in the female ma...

Exaggerated acute and late toxicities following radiotherapy have been reported in patients with pre-existing connective tissue diseases, such as systemic lupus scleroderma. Behcet’s disease (BD) is a relapsing multisystem characterized by vasculitis the mucocutaneous, ocular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, neurologic, urogenital, articular, cardiovascular systems. Data concerning relationship ...