Vulval elephantiasis

Vulval Elephantiasis: A Case Report

Introduction. Elephantiasis is a chronic manifestation of filariasis; it commonly affects limbs, scrotum, and trunk. Females have lower incidence of filarial infection. Vulval elephantiasis due to filariasis is still rarer. It is difficult to make the diagnosis on histopathology alone, more so in view of the fact that the parasite is usually not identified in tissue sections. Identification of ...

Recurrent Unilateral Vulval Elephantiasis: A Case Report

Genital elephantiasis is caused by a variety of infective and non infective causes leading to blockage of lymphatic. We are presenting a rare case of recurrent unilateral vulval elephantiasis which has recurred after initial reconstructive surgery. A 38 year old female presented with vulval swelling and on examination there was gross unilateral vulval enlargement. FNAC (Fine needle aspiration c...

recurrent unilateral vulval elephantiasis: a case report.

genital elephantiasis is caused by a variety of infective and non infective causes leading to blockage of lymphatic. we are presenting a rare case of recurrent unilateral vulval elephantiasis which has recurred after initial reconstructive surgery. a 38 year old female presented with vulval swelling and on examination there was gross unilateral vulval enlargement. fnac (fine needle aspiration c...

Elephantiasis

Scrotal Elephantiasis

an early mpjfcality of twenty-seven per cent, in sixty-one cases of operation for Scrotal Elephantiasis reported by Fayrer Oh" referring to my published record of these cases, I obsor-ve that the total number of cases operated upon during, .the yea-s, 1859 to 1871 amounted to 193, of which 35, or a fraction over 18 per cent., proved fatal. This is befit'dr than represented by Koch's, as above q...