Vulvar pruritus is a common symptom in post-menopausal women and treatment is easy if the diagnosis is duly recognized. The purpose of this study is to show the importance of colposcopic examination and directed biopsies in 27 post-menopausal women with pruritus. Biopsy sites were selected by colposcopy. The prevalence of vulvar pruritus, vulvar pathologies, vulvar dystrophies and vulvar intrae...

fibroadenoma of the vulva is an uncommon lesion. it has been suggested that they originate from vulvar mammary like other glands. a few examples of benign and malignant vulvar tumors arising from such glands have been reported. a 32-year-old woman was referred with a subcutaneous mass at the vulva. the patient treated by simple excisional surgery with adequate peripheral margin. histological fi...

Primary tuberculosis (TB) of the vulva is very rare. The authors reported here a case of primary ulcerative vulvar TB in a 14 -yearold virgin girl. The diagnosis was based on the pathological finding on tissue biopsy, followed by anti tuberculosis therapy; the vulvar ulcer was completely healed. Vulvar TB must be considered when a persistent vulvar ulcer fails to respond to ordinary treatment.

Primary breast cancer fairly infrequently occurs in ectopic breast tissue, and primary ectopic breast cancer of the vulva is particularly rare. Only 26 cases have been published in the English-language literature, and there has been no report of primary breast carcinoma of the vulva in Japan. We report a rare case of primary ectopic breast cancer of the vulva that was treated with local excisio...

Introduction The risk of contralateral lymph node metastases following unilateral sentinel (SLN) in patients with vulvar cancer(s) remains to be systematically assessed. Material and methods We performed a multicenter, retrospective registry-based study 476 cancer. primary outcome measure was the rate non-SLN case positive SLN. Results Out cancer, 202 received SLN biopsy: 58 144 bilateral. 66 m...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW As the length of survival in patients with gynecological malignancies increases due to advances in early diagnosis and therapy, quality of life becomes a major issue for the survivors. These women frequently suffer symptoms following an iatrogenically induced menopause. Many gynecologists advise these patients against hormonal replacement therapy. This review attempts to provi...

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the main complications arising from pelvic exenteration surgery in gynecological cancer and in-hospital death outcome after surgical procedure. Method: an integrative literature review considering 23 articles published 2012 2020 LILACS IBECS databases. The descriptors used were following: genital cancer, exenteration, postoperative complications, death, combined ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate if viral load, integration and methylation of E2BS3 and 4 represent different ways of tumor transformation in vaginal and vulvar carcinoma and to elucidate its clinical impact. METHODS Fifty-seven samples, positive for HPV16, were selected for the study. Detection of viral load was made with realtime-PCR using copy numbers of E6 and integration was calculated from com...