*Corresponding Author: Andreas Chrysostomou, P.O Box 29699, Sandringham, 2131, Johannesburg, Gauteng, RSA, Email: [email protected] A 22-year-old nulliparous woman was consulted for primary amenorrhoea at the Gynaecological out-patient department of the tertiary academic hospital. The initial referral diagnosis was testicular feminization syndrome. On physical examination, the pat...

Method Patients were examined, diagnosed and treated DSD or ambiguous sex at (NHP) from 31/07/2002 to 31/7/2012. Criteria that suggest DSD include 1. overt genital ambiguity (eg, cloacal exstrophy) 2. apparent female genitalia with an enlarged clitoris, posterior labial fusion, or an inguinal/labial mass 3. apparent male genitalia with bilateral undescended testes, micropenis, isolated perineal...

Dr Maggie Kirkup Consultant, Western Area Health Trust This article aims to discuss some of the most common skin disorders which affect the vulva and surrounding skin in adults. Sexually transmitted diseases and issues around female genital mutilation are not included in this article. The vulva consists of the mons pubis, labia majora and minora, clitoris and vaginal vestibule. The surface of m...

Introduction: We present the case of a 23-year-old female with bilateral ectopic breast tissue of the vulva, the repair of which necessitated a novel labiaplasty technique. Labiaplasty is becoming an increasingly frequent cosmetic procedure, and the popularity of brief didactic labiaplasty courses has risen in response to consumer demand. There is a paucity of detailed anatomic description of f...

Women with spinal cord injuries (SCIs) have predictable alterations in sexual responses. They commonly have a decreased ability to achieve genital sexual arousal. This study determined whether the use of vibratory stimulation would result in increased genital arousal as measured by vaginal pulse amplitude in women with SCIs. Subjects included 46 women with SCIs and 11 nondisabled control subjec...

Clitoral priapism is a rare condition that is associated with an extended duration of clitoral erection due to local engorgement of clitoral tissue resulting in pain. Although the pathophysiology is not completely understood, it has been associated with specific classes of medications, diseases that alter clitoral blood flow or others associated with small to large vessel disease. We present a ...

Objective Acquired clitoromegaly is rare and may result from hormonal and nonhormonal causes, and evaluation of the pregnant patient with clitoromegaly invokes a specific set of differential diagnoses. Methods Case report. Results We describe the case of a young woman with pregnancy-associated clitoral enlargement whose hormonal evaluation proved negative. Further investigation concluded that a...

To assess the effects of a single supraphysiological postnatal administration of a progestogen on uterine glands in dogs, 10 females were randomly assigned to a medroxyprogesterone acetate 35 mg (MPA; n = 6) or placebo (n = 4) group within the first 24 h of birth. The safety of the treatment was also evaluated. A transient mild clitoris enlargement appeared in MPA-treated females. Microscopic p...

Adhesions of the labia are extremely rare in the reproductive population with only a few cases described in the literature. We report a young female patient with coital and voiding difficulty. The patient was a 22-year-old woman presented with voiding difficulty and inability to achieve sexual intercourse. Clinical examination revealed normally developed labia majora, clitoris, and vaginal open...