He was getting ready for his sophomore year at Zeeland West High School and football practices had already started. At the ...

A multi-institutional clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators has shown that a ...

Perineal tears are also called vaginal tears or perineal lacerations. After a third- or fourth-degree perineal tear or another complex birth injury, our urogynecologists can help treat your symptoms ...

If you've had a vaginal delivery, chances are you either had a perineal tear or an episiotomy (when the obstetrician makes a ...

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Are women with birth injuries taken seriously and given good medical care? Many of those affected would say no. Melanie R. is ...

Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MDMedically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD A perineal hernia is a protrusion of organs and tissues into the abdominal cavity. It develops when the pelvic floor ...

The perineum is the area of the skin and muscle stretching between your vaginal opening and your anus. Perineal massage is a way of preparing the tissues of the perineum, the area between your vagina ...

Objectives: To evaluate reports that describe relapse or recurrence following treatment of perineal streptococcal dermatitis (PSD), we studied a large cohort of children with these perianal or ...

Gardner, PA) and water ad libitum. Animal care personnel requested a veterinarian to examine a mouse with perineal swelling. The mouse was approximately 10 weeks old and was part of a breeding ...

some recurrences in our case-series may not have been true PSD recurrences because they were generally diagnosed on clinical grounds and not routinely confirmed by obtaining a repeat perineal ...