The primary mode of human papillomavirus (HPV) transmission is through penetrative sex; however, there is evidence of other modes of transmission. No systematic review was found that focussed on HPV horizontal transmission that is not penocentric. A systematic review of the literature by searching Medline (Ovid), PubMed (NLM) and Embase (Ovid) was conducted to retrieve articles published from 1...

OBJECTIVE To share our experience of treating patients with Fournier's Gangrene and their outcomes at POF Hospital, Wah Cantt. METHODS A descriptive study was conducted at the Urology Department, POF Hospital, Wah Cantt from October 2006 to March 2007. A total of 22 patients, all men with ages ranging from 30-75 years, were included in the study. The diagnosis was established on the basis of ...

When Brian Sullivan — the baby who would before age 2 become Bonnie Sullivan and 36 years later become Cheryl Chase — was born in New Jersey on Aug. 14, 1956, doctors kept his mother, a Catholic housewife, sedated for three days until they could decide what to tell her. Sullivan was born with ambiguous genitals, or as Chase now describes them, with genitals that looked “like a little parkerhous...

The lumbosacral spinal network controlling penile erection is activated by information from peripheral and supraspinal origins. We tested the hypothesis that glutamate, released by sensory afferents from the genitals, activates this proerectile network. In anesthetized intact and T8 spinalized (i.e., freed from supraspinal inhibition) male rats, the parameters of electrical stimulation of the d...

Vitamin D is a steroid hormone with several important functions in the nervous system. Numerous human and animal data link alterations in the vitamin D system to various behavioral disorders. Grooming is an important element of rodent behavior with a general pattern of cephalocaudal progression (paw licking - nose/face wash - body wash - tail/genitals wash). Here we studied whether genetic abla...

Primary infection of the vulva, vagina and urethra with B. Coli is not common, but cases do occur which give rise to a suspicion of gonococcal infection. The commonest type is the vulvo-vaginitis of young girls; this is limited to the external genitals, and does not involve the vagina above the hymen and rarely the urethra. The initial lesion is usually caused by trauma, either by the rubbing o...

The primary somatosensory cortex contains a topographic map of the body surface, with two notable discontinuities—the representation of the face is next to that of the hands, and that of the feet is next to the genitals. Farah [Why does the somatosensory homunculus have hands next to face and feet next to genitals? a hypothesis. Neural Computation 10(8) (1998) 1983–1985] has suggested that thes...

Sexual behaviors in children are common, occurring in 42 to 73 percent of children by the time they reach 13 years of age. Developmentally appropriate behavior that is common and frequently observed in children includes trying to view another person's genitals or breasts, standing too close to other persons, and touching their own genitals. Sexual behaviors become less common, less frequent, or...

Condyloma acuminatum (CA) is a benign tumor primarily caused by infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) type-6 or type-11, lesions of which are most frequently found on the genital and perianal squamous mucosa skin. CA outside genitals not common. The woman underwent successful surgical excision reconstruction for breast nipple condyloma. Breast condyloma pose management dilemma. It possible ...