INTRODUCTION Foreign body in the vagina is a common cause of vaginal discharge, which may be either purulent or hemorrhagic. CASE PRESENTATION This problem may produce symptoms or be asymptomatic for long periods of time and may result from ignorance, accident, malice, psychotic tendencies, attempts at sexual stimulation or sexual abuse. The current report presents the case of a girl that had...

Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich (HWW) syndrome is an uncommon combined müllerian duct anomalies (MDAs) and mesonephric duct malformation of female urogenital tract characterized by uterus didelphys and obstructed hemi-vagina and ipsilateral renal agenesis (OHVIRA) syndrome. We present a rare and unusual case of this syndrome in a 19 year-old female who suffered from hypomenorrhoea and abdominal pain. ...

Introduction: Vaginal adenosis is one of the rare diseases of the vagina, and almost all patients are asymptomatic. We report a case of spontaneous vaginal adenosis, which caused vesicovaginal fistula. Case Presentation: Our patient was a 25-year-old Japanese woman. She was admitted to our hospital, and her chief complaint was continuous urine flow from the vagina. We found a tumor with a vesic...

ABSTRACT A 46-year-old woman was referred to gynecology for the assessment and treatment of an anterior vaginal wall cyst. The preoperative physical examination transvaginal USG pelvis were most consistent with presence a bladder Following excision cyst wall, patient diagnosed endometrioma in part vagina. This case emphasizes difficulties identification endometriosis vagina other uncommon place...

Malignant melanoma of the vagina, a very rare malignancy, has a notoriously aggressive behavior associated with a high risk of local recurrence and distant metastasis. At present, there are various treatment options for this disease but no standard guideline. We describe a case of a 54-year-old woman with a locally advanced melanoma of the vagina, who underwent radical surgery, biochemotherapy ...

Pelvic infection in females often occur as a result of colonization by a variety of bacteria On the vaginal and cervical epithelium. The type of organisms present in the vagina depends on pH and the enzymes in the vaginal secretions. Therefore, knowledge of the bacterial inhabitants of the vagina and cervix during pregnancy is important and could be of value in assessing the pathogenesis of sev...

background: the most frequently used spermicide nonoxynol-9 (n-9) in the clinic alters the vaginal flora, which will result in an increased risk of opportunistic infection. so development of a novel spermicidal and microbicidal drug appears to be inevitable. vaginal local immune is an important part of vaginal flora. secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (slpi), surfactant proteins d (sp-d), a...

Epithelioid leiomyoma of the vagina is extremely rare. Smooth muscle tumors of the vagina usually present with a submucosal growth pattern or a pedunculated growth pattern from the anterior vaginal wall into the vaginal cavity. Here we report a case of a 43-year-old woman with a solid epithelioid leiomyoma and a palpable mass in the pouch of Douglas. Transvaginal biopsy and angiography showed t...

RATIONALE Primary vaginal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a rare disease. Primary SCC in prolapsed vagina is extremely rare. In the presented case additional bladder involvement was found. PATIENTS CONCERNS Primary vaginal SCC may be misinterpreted as decubitus in prolapsed vagina and it may delay proper diagnosis and treatment. DIAGNOSES Diagnosis was confirmed by the vaginal ulceration b...

The fate of spermatozoa not participating in fertilization has been held to be enzymatic dissolution and phagocytic engulfment (Austin, 1957). Various investigators have observed sperm cells undergoing phagocytosis by polymorphonuclear leucocytes in the vagina and uterus (Yochem, 1929; Pitkjanen, 1960; Howe & Black, 1963). There is some evidence which indicates that ovarian hormones influence t...