Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, as it is known, is a state in the Scandinavian region of Northern Europe. The estimated population is around ,5,580,413. The national language is Danish [1]. Denmark has one of the world’s highest per capita income. For 2013, Denmark is listed 15th on the Human Development Index.Danish engineers are world-leading in providing diabetes care equipment a...

Endometriosis is a commonly encountered benign gynecological disease, involving extrauterine growth of both endometrial glands and elements of endometrial stroma. The vulva is not exempt from endometriotic disease. However rare, endometriosis may occur in the Bartholin gland, in episiotomy scars, postoperative perineal incision sites and vulvar lacerations. Risk factors for vulvar endometriosis...

Leiomyoma of vulva is rare, and usually misdiagnosed clinically as Bartholin cyst. It usually presents spindle-shaped tumor cells, but some rare cases consisted mainly of atypical epithelioid tumor cells. We report here a case of 30-year-old woman consulting with a vulvar mass of 7 cm in the Bartholin glands area. The lesion was surgically excised with its capsule completely. Pathological exami...

Cutaneous vulvar carcinomas are predominantly of squamous cell carcinoma type. Primary vulvar adenocarcinomas are rare with a poorly understood histogenesis. They are classified into extramammary Paget's disease, sweat gland carcinomas, and breast-like adenocarcinomas of the vulva. Adenocarcinomas, originating from Bartholin glands, can also present as vulvar adenocarcinoma. Rare adenocarcinoma...

MAJOR SALIVARY GLANDS OF BOTH HUMANS AND RODENTS CONSIST OF THREE PAIRS OF MACROSCOPIC GLANDS: parotid, submandibular, and sublingual. These glands secrete serous, mucous or mixed saliva via the proper main excretory ducts connecting the glandular bodies with the oral cavity. A series of discoveries about the salivary ducts in the 17th century by Niels Stensen (1638-1686), Thomas Wharton (1614-...

Vaginal discharge is a distressing and a subjective symptom. A proportion of women are troubled by a discharge which is not profuse whilst others interpret a heavier discharge as normal. Vaginal discharge may be a presenting symptom of a woman who has an underlying psychosexual problem1. The structures of the female genital tract contributing to vaginal secretions include the uterine cervix, en...

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer in economically developed countries, and the second most common gynecologic cancer in economically developing countries [2]. Women in the United States have a 2.6% lifetime risk of developing uterine cancer, with the average age of diagnosis being 61 years old [2]. Eighty to ninety percent of the time, abnormal vaginal bleeding or dischar...

DURING a review of the aetiology of intlammation and cysts of Bartholin’s glands, interest was aroused in the discoverer of these glands. This led to a search of the literature and the tracing out of the history of a remarkable family of Danes, who flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries. The first of the line of medical interest was Caspar Bartholinus who lived from 1585 to 1629. He was born...

Accounting for less than 5% of all vulvar malignancies, primary carcinoma of the Bartholin gland is rare. Cancers arising in the Bartholin duct are most commonly adenocarcinomas or squamous cell carcinomas; occasionally transitional cell, adenosquamous, and adenoid cystic carcinomas may develop. A case of locally advanced Bartholin gland carcinoma was seen recently at Mayo Clinic. Case Report

Bartholin duct cyst is a relatively common benign lesion occurring in the labia minora and is of urogenital sinus origin [1, 2]. Bartholin duct cysts arising from the main duct are lined by urothelial or squamous epithelium, whereas those originating from an acinus are covered by mucinous columnar epithelium [1, 2]. Albeit extremely rare, pigmentation in an external genital cyst, such as median...