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Vaginal Metastases in Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

Asia-Oceania Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1990
AbstractFrom 1976 to 1988, 320 patients with gestational trophoblastic disease were treated in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Hong Kong. Eighteen patients had vaginal metastases. The clinical features and behaviour of the disease were analysed. The prognosis depends mainly on the extent of the disease.
Collins, RJ, Wong, LC, Ngan, HY, Ma, HK
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Vaginal flora and pelvic inflammatory disease

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1993
Forty-one patients with acute pelvic inflammatory disease were evaluated for the coexistence of bacterial vaginosis. Because all patients had a copious purulent vaginal discharge, microscopic criteria could not be used and microbiologic criteria were employed.
S, Faro, M, Martens, M, Maccato, H, Hammill, M, Pearlman   +4 more
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Pelvic Castleman disease presenting as vaginal occlusion

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2002
Castleman disease is a lymphoreticular disorder, which may be clinically silent. However, systemic manifestations can occur, which include generalized adenopathy and life-threatening bronchiolitis obliterans.A woman presented with vaginal mucosal lesions recalcitrant to initial treatment efforts.
Glenn A, Gaunt, Bobbie S, Gostout, Ellen, Remstein, William A, Cliby   +3 more
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Vaginal disease

Postgraduate Medicine, 1983
Vaginal diseases are, in many cases, sexually transmitted. However, most can also be non-venereal and can occur in any age-group. Special care should be taken in examining and treating young females with vaginal disease, and the possibility of sexual abuse should be considered in this age-group.
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Overview of Vaginal Ulcerative Disease

Pediatric Annals
Genital ulcers may be located on the vagina, penis, and anorectal or perineal areas and may be infectious or noninfectious. Vaginal ulcers affect patients of all ages and are commonly due to sexually transmitted infections, such as herpes simplex virus, the most common cause of genital ulcers in the United States.
Cherie Priya, Dhar, Jessica L, Feuerstein, Caroline, Salas-Humara   +2 more
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Vaginal Cancer: An Iatrogenic Disease?

International Journal of Health Services, 1975
Presently we are witnessing two unique occurrences in the field of public health: the first demonstration of transplacental carcinogenesis in humans and the first drug-induced cancer epidemic in women under age 30. This article examines the current status of the vaginal cancer epidemic and possible reasons for the failure of governmental health ...
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Vaginal Hysterectomy for Benign Disease Without Prolapse

Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2010
Vaginal hysterectomy was the first minimally invasive surgical approach for benign gynecologic conditions. Recently a number of other approaches for hysterectomy have been introduced, yet when compared with vaginal hysterectomy these approaches do not offer significant benefit for similar indications.
Mamta Muralidhar, Kulkarni, Rebecca Glenn, Rogers   +1 more
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Infectious Vaginitis, Cervicitis, and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Medical Clinics of North America, 2023
Vaginal symptoms are one of the most common reasons women consult with physicians and can significantly impact quality of life. The differential diagnosis of vaginal discharge includes physiologic discharge, vaginitis, cervicitis, and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Vaginitis is inflammation of the vagina, most commonly caused by bacterial vaginosis
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Vaginal Flora in Health and Disease

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1993
This chapter has portrayed the normal vaginal flora as a range of microbial species that associates in a stable way with human vaginal epithelium. The human vagina provides these microorganisms with the physical and chemical environment that allows them to use this tissue as a normal habitat.
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Vaginal microbiota and viral sexually transmitted diseases.

Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunita, 2013
Healthy vaginal microbiota is an important biological barrier to pathogenic microorganisms. When this predominantly Lactobacillus community is disrupted, decreased in abundance and replaced by different anaerobes, bacterial vaginosis (BV) may occur. BV is associated with prevalence and incidence of several sexually transmitted infections.
C. Nardis, MOSCA, Luciana, MASTROMARINO, Paola   +2 more
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