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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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[Vaginal ulcers in Behçet disease].

Ginecologia y obstetricia de Mexico, 2008
Incidence of Behçet disease in USA is 0.12 in 100,000; but in Mexico there are just two isolated cases. This paper reports a case of a 30 year-old female, who, when 26, had vaginal ulcers. She received antimicrobial therapy during four years. In March 2007 she came to author's hospital with a cervical vaginitis diagnose study, and presenting thorax ...
Fernando Mendoza, Calderón, Virgilio G, Valladares, Alberto M, Ballesteros, María C, de la Merced Ayala   +3 more
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Gestational trophoblastic disease: The significance of vaginal metastases

Gynecologic Oncology, 1986
Five patients with gestational trophoblastic disease whose presenting symptom was hemorrhage from vaginal metastases have been added to our previous report. The clinical features, management, and responses to treatment are outlined. All the patients required suturing of the bleeding lesions under general anesthetic to arrest the hemorrhage. In addition
G L, Goldberg, D A, Yon, B, Bloch, W, Levin   +3 more
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Vaginal Bleeding and Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

2011
Molar pregnancy and gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) comprise a group of interrelated diseases, including complete and partial molar pregnancy, placental-site trophoblastic tumor (PSTT), and choriocarcinoma, that have varying propensities for local invasion and distal spread. Vaginal bleeding is a common presenting sign, seen in as many as 97%
Lisa M. Barroilhet, Donald Peter Goldstein, Ross S. Berkowitz   +2 more
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