The prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among prostitutes was investigated at a genitourinary hospital in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1985 and 1986. The most common STD was Chlamydia trachomatis infection, followed by gonorrhea and condyloma acuminatum. Candidiasis, trichomoniasis and genital herpes were relatively uncommon. The rate of prostitutes who had STD but had no subjective sympto...

Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus (ILVEN) is a benign cutaneous hamartoma characterized by intensely erythematous, pruritic, and inflammatory papules that occur as linear bands along the lines of Blaschko. There is a considerable clinical and histological resemblance between ILVEN and linear psoriasis, lichen striatus, linear lichen planus, and invasion of epidermal nevus by psorias...

CONTEXT Verrucous carcinoma of the bladder is a very rare malignant neoplasm, histologically similar to condyloma acuminatum. Usually it shows association with vesical schistosomiasis (bilharziasis). Only 13 cases unrelated to bilharziasis have been reported to date, and none of them reported koilocytosis, a typical finding in human papillomavirus infection. CASE REPORT We report a case of ve...

ated anal squamous cell cancer in Korea. However, the increases in the number of HIV-positive patients and in their survival [8] will eventually make condyloma acuminata and associated anal cancer an important issue. As uterine cervical cancer, a typical cancer caused by HPV infection, diminishes in incidence and mortality because of publicity and education, the time to start surveillance and t...

In 202 women with koilocytotic atypia in cervical smears, 136 had predominantly small condylomata of the uterine cervix, and 66 had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) of varying degree either with koilocytosis of the neoplasia or associated with condylomata. Koilocytosis correlated well with the histological diagnosis of condylomata, but occasionally it obscured the cytological evidence o...

350 six months. The same lesion had gradually increased to attain the present size. Family and personal history were not contributory. Dermatological examination revealed two skin lesions on the medial aspect of the right thigh [Figure 1]. The larger one was 6 × 7 cm in size and smaller one was 1 × 3 cm in size. Both were firm in consistency, non-tender, mobile on the underlying structure, caul...

OBJECTIVE Our aim was to test a new cryosurgical wart treatment, dimethylether (Histofreezer), for clinical effi-cacy in newly diagnosed cases of genital warts. METHODS All patients of the gynecology clinic of a teaching hospital who were at least 12 years of age and who had between one and eight external genital warts were eligible. Treatment occurred at the initial visit and at follow-up vi...