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 Paget’s disease is an extramammary manifestation of Paget’s disease, a cutaneous neoplasm that clinically appears as sharply defined erythematous plaques with irregular borders that usually affect apocrine gland-bearing skin. Extramammary Paget’s disease (EMPD) of the vulva can remain undiagnosed for years and could be associated with multifocal neoplasms. The current gold standard for t...

Vulvar neoplasms represent four percent of all gynecological cancers. While most cases of vulvar neoplasms are benign, two percent of patients present with malignant disease. We present the case of a 37-year-old premenopausal female who presented to an outside institution with a lump in her left vulva, which had progressively enlarged to the size of an egg. A wide local excision of the left vul...

BACKGROUND Lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymph node biopsy is an established technique for the staging and treatment of melanoma. The success of lymphatic mapping in this realm has broadened its application to other solid neoplasms. This update reviews the status of sentinel lymph node biopsy in its most widely cited applications. METHODS Seminal manuscripts on lymphatic mapping in melanoma,...

vulvar liposarcoma is rare and there are only eleven cases reported since 1966.primary sarcoma of the vulva constitutes 1-2% of all vulvar malignancies.Because of their locations and appearance,they may be easily mistaken as bening lesions.this is a report of a 65-years-old wite a vulvar mass similar to a lipoma.the lesion,a soft tissue mass,was totally excised and was sent for pathologic study...

BACKGROUNDS Angiomyofibroblastoma (AMFB) is a rare histopathologic finding of the female lower genital tract. This tumor belongs to the group of mesenchymal tumors. Mesenchymal neoplasms of the modified genital skin and mucosa are uncommon. The majority of these lesions are seen in females and, collectively, they form a family of vulvovaginal soft tissue tumors. This family includes fibroepithe...

The complete form of androgen insensitivity syndrome (testicular feminization) occurs in a 46,XY karyotype with a mutant X-linked recessive gene that is responsible for the androgen intracellular receptor [l]. An individual with androgen insensitivity syndrome is a male pseudohermaphrodite. Phenotypic characterizations include scanty or absent axillary and pubic hair, slight vulvar hair, a rudi...

gastroesophageal-vul var leiomyomatosis is a very rare condition it is characterized by diffuse, ill-defined proliferation of smooth muscle in the esophagus and vulva. we present an interesting case of esophageal leiomyomatosis in a woman with a history of vulvar leiomyomatosis and a gall bladder full of stones. she was 18-years old and had a 4 year history of vulvar mass and clitoromegaly, wit...