BACKGROUND Fournier gangrene is a necrotizing fasciitis, arising in the genital and perineal area. This entity is still associated with a high mortality rate despite improvements in antibiotic and surgical treatment. METHODS This is a retrospective study of all the patients diagnosed and surgically treated for Fournier gangrene at General University Hospital Ramon y Cajal between 1988 and 200...

Background. Fournier’s gangrene (FG) represents a necrotizing infection of the skin and subcutaneous soft tissue of the external genitalia and perineum. It arises as a result of propagation of anorectal, urogenital and skin infections. The principles of treatment include improving general condition of a patient, debridement of wound, excision of necrotic tissue, combined antibiotic therapy, hyp...

Integrating the sustainable dimension into product innovation has become a major concern for luxury brand managers. Building on consumer–brand relationship theoretical framework (Fournier, 1998) and transgression acts (Aaker, Fournier, & Brasel, 2004), this research focuses substitution innovations in sector. An experimental study (N = 536) with two brands (luxury vs. non-luxury) four types of ...

– Last year, Blanco and Fournier (Blanco S. and Fournier R., Europhys. Lett. 2003) calculated the mean first exit time of a domain of a particle undergoing a randomly reoriented ballistic motion which starts from the boundary. They showed that it is simply related to the ratio of the volume’s domain over its surface. This work was extended by Mazzolo (Mazzolo A., Europhys. Lett. 2004) who studi...

OBJECTIVE To present a case of Fournier gangrene and the specific surgical therapy CASE PRESENTATION A 71-year old patient with a two days history of pain in the perineal region, swelling, developing necrosis and foul-smelling lesions was examined in emergency settings. The swelling of subcutaneous plane involved the flank regions, mainly on the left side. The investigations were performed (f...

This study examines shareholder risk and rates of return in union and nonunion companies in 1973-87. Shareholder risk declined with the extent of union coverage in the 1970s, and returns were lower among highly unionized companies than among other companies during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Unionnonunion differences in risk were small and insignificant by the mid-1980s, however, and there ...