Syringoma is a benign eccrine sweat gland tumour affecting mostly females at puberty as multiple soft papules usually 1-2 mm in diameter. The sites of predilection are lower eyelids, cheeks. Syringoma of the vulva is a rare disorder. Only few cases have been reported in the literature. We report here a case of 46-year-old female who presented to gynecology department with vulvar papules associa...

Surgery on vulvar malignancies has become more conservative over the past several decades. A radical vulvectomy with removal of bilateral inguinal lymph nodes en bloc, a mutilating procedure fraught with high complication rates still performed in the 1980s, has become a rarity in today’s practice. This may be partially due to the fact that tumors tend to be diagnosed at earlier stages, thanks t...

Pigmented vulvar lesions are present in approximately 1 in 10 women and include melanocytic and nonmelanocytic proliferations. Vulvar nevi, melanosis, and melanoma are particularly challenging because of the similarity of their clinical and/or histopathological presentation. As a result, they are often difficult to diagnose, may result in patient and physician anxiety, and can lead to unneeded,...

Numerous skin diseases occurring in the pregnant patient have been reported. Some of these diseases are unique to pregnancy and some, including vulvar varicosities, vulvar edema, postpartum labial adhesions, and hematomas, are a result of physiological changes of pregnancy or the birth process. In addition, a variety of viral and bacterial infectious diseases of the vulva may occur during pregn...

Vulvar cancer is the fourth most common gynecologic malignancy, accounting for 5 to 8% of all female genital tract malignancies (Stehman, 2007). It affects 4850 new patients annually in the United States (Siegel, Ma, Zou, & Jemal, 2014) and 3190 new patients in Germany (Kaatsch et al., 2013), with an annual estimated death rate of 1030 and 750, respectively, in the two countries (Kaatsch et al....

BACKGROUND Infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) is causally related to cervical, vulvar and vaginal pre-invasive neoplasias and cancers. Highly effective vaccines against HPV types 16/18 have been available since 2006, and are currently used in many countries in combination with cervical cancer screening to control the burden of cervical cancer. We estimated the overall and age-s...

INTRODUCTION Dermatologic diseases of the vulva may cause dyspareunia. These disorders may be overlooked by gynecologists and urologists because of lack of residency training experience. Dermatologists who are most familiar with these diseases are infrequently trained in vulvovaginal examination. As such, these disorders are often improperly diagnosed and treated. AIM To describe the presenta...

BACKGROUND Mucous membrane pemphigoid is a rare autoimmune blistering disease primarily affecting mucosal surfaces. Blistering and scarring may occur in the eyes, mouth, esophagus, larynx, and on the vulva. Scarring can result in severe structural changes to the vulva that may mimic the findings of other inflammatory dermatologic disorders of the vulva, including lichen sclerosus and lichen pla...

Aims: To objectively assess the psychological and psychosexual morbidity of patients with vulvar vestibulitis. Methods: 30 patients with variable degrees of vulvar vestibulitis were recruited from a vulval clinic. Each patient underwent a detailed history and clinical examination. Friedrich's criteria were used for the diagnosis of vulvar vestibulitis. Standardised questionnaires to assess psyc...

Vulvar cancer represents approximately 3%-5% of all gynecological malignancies. Squamous cell carcinoma is the most frequent histotype, whereas melanomas, adenocarcinomas, basal cell carcinomas, and sarcomas are much less common. Intestinal-type adenocarcinoma is a rare variant of vulvar carcinoma with only few cases found in the literature. The origin of this neoplasia is still much debated, b...