| Popis: |
The following cases of gangrenous and erosive balanitis are reported because the comparative bacteriologic study of the secretions in these diseases and the normal preputial secretion suggested the etiology of the infection in our patients. Specific balanitis is not an uncommon disease, yet practically the only reference made to it is the statement that it is caused by the symbiosis of a spirochete and a vibrio. This fact was first brought out by Bataille and Berdal1in 1889, who demonstrated the specific nature of erosive balanitis. In 1905, Muller and Scherber2described gangrenous balanitis as a more destructive type of the erosive form, due to the same organisms. Corbus and Harris3reported three cases of gangrenous balanitis, and pointed out that the essential predisposing factor was a long, tight foreskin, emphasizing saliva contamination by wetting the labia or penis with saliva and by unnatural sexual relations. Again |
