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Extensive Sloughing, including Scrotum, Buttocks, etc., and Recto-urethral Fistula Secondary to Extravasation of Urine from Rupture of the Urethra, Caused by a Fall and Direct Violence to the Perineum.

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Title: Diseases of the rectum and anus: designed for students and practitioners of medicine
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gant, Samuel Goodwin, 1869?-
Subjects: Anus Diseases Rectal Diseases
Publisher: Philadelphia : F. A. Davis
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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l the bristles of which had been cut so as to makeit as rough as possible. Various attempts to remove it failed,owing to the bristles catching in the mucous membrane.Finally, Marchetti succeeded in slipping a cannula over it, thusprotecting the membrane, when it was removed without diffi-culty. Foreign bodies which sometimes form in the body and be-come lodged in the rectum are, in the order of their frequency:coproliths, gall-stones, enteroliths (Fig. 209), avenoliths (oat-stones), pancreatic calcuH, urinary calculi (Fig. 210), prostaticcalculi, and bezoars (hair balls. Fig. 208). Foreign bodies which have entered the rectum and re-mained there for a considerable time may serve as a nucleus FOREIGN BODIES, WOUNDS, AND INJURIES 617 around which feces or earthy salts may graduahy collect untilthe mass becomes of great size; when the accumulation is dueto earthy salts the concretion usually has a regular, highly-polished surface. Wounds and Injuries of the rectum are comparatively rare.
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Fig. 211.—Extensive Sloughing, including Scrotum, Buttocks, etc., and Recto-urethral Fistula Secondary to Extravasation of Urine from Rupture of tlieUrethra, Caused by a Fall and Direct Violence to the Perineum. They occur most frequently in adult life, and are more commonin women than in men, owing to parturition and the fact thatwomen so often suffer from constipation. Cases have beenrecorded in which the recto-vaginal septum, perineum, and rec-tum were lacerated during labor, and other cases have been ob- 648 DISEASES OF THE RECTUM AND ANUS served in which ulceration, sloughing, abscess, and fistula haveoccurred as the result of injury to the blood-vessels by thepassage of the childs head. Constipation compHcated by fecalimpaction is a fruitful source of injury to the rectum. Whencomparatively small and nodular the fecal masses may producelongitudinal rents in the mucosa (fissure) during expulsion;when the accumulation assumes enormous proportions, it maycause rupture of the bowe

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