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Malignant vulvar neoplasms makes up 6% of all reproductive organ cancer and 0.7% of the total cancers in women in the United States. One out of every 333 women will develop vulvar cancer. In the United States, vulvar cancer accounts for nearly 6% of cancers of the female reproductive organs and 0.7% of all cancers in women.
Crohn's disease (CD) of the vulva is a rare extra intestinal condition, with granulomatous cutaneous lesions affecting the female genitalia. Lesions connected to the affected gut via a healthy tissue are referred to as metastatic lesions.
Vulvar cancer is a cancer of the vulva, the outer portion of the female genitals. [1] It most commonly affects the labia majora . [ 1 ] Less often, the labia minora , clitoris , or Bartholin's glands are affected. [ 1 ]
Vaginal tumors are neoplasms (tumors) found in the vagina.They can be benign or malignant. [1] [a] A neoplasm is an abnormal growth of tissue that usually forms a tissue mass.[2] [3] [4] Vaginal neoplasms may be solid, cystic or of mixed type.
Rare, <1% of all female genital tract cancer, <5% of vulvar cancer [2] Bartholin gland carcinoma is a type of cancer of the vulva arising in the Bartholin gland . [ 2 ] It typically presents with a painless mass at one side of the vaginal opening in a female of middle-age and older, and can appear similar to a Bartholin cyst . [ 2 ]
In Langerhans cell histiocytosis, lesions initially are erythematous, purpuric papules and they then become scaly, crusted and sometimes confluent. In Kawasaki disease , an erythematous, desquamating perineal rash may occur in the second week of symptom onset, almost at the same time as palmoplantar desquamation.
Female genital disease is a disorder of the structure or function of the female reproductive system that has a known cause and a distinctive group of symptoms, signs, or anatomical changes. The female reproductive system consists of the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. Female genital diseases can be classified by affected ...
The diagnosis is always based on a careful inspection and a targeted biopsy of a visible vulvar lesion. The type and distribution of lesions varies among the two different types of VIN. In the Usual type VIN, seen more frequently in young patients, lesions tend to be multifocal over an otherwise normal vulvar skin.