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Wolf in lamb's skin: Vulval carcinoma mimicking bartholin gland abscess
Vulvar cancer is a rare malignancy, representing approximately 4% of the female genital tract malignancies. This case emphasizes the importance of considering the unusual diagnosis of vulval cancer in a young woman when confronted with a large or recurrent Bartholin gland lesion, and underlines the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168041/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21938116 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.55489 |
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author | Nayak, Ashwini U Sundari, N Nandini, G |
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description | Vulvar cancer is a rare malignancy, representing approximately 4% of the female genital tract malignancies. This case emphasizes the importance of considering the unusual diagnosis of vulval cancer in a young woman when confronted with a large or recurrent Bartholin gland lesion, and underlines the need for careful pathological examination of such specimens. |
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spelling | pubmed-31680412011-09-21 Wolf in lamb's skin: Vulval carcinoma mimicking bartholin gland abscess Nayak, Ashwini U Sundari, N Nandini, G Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Case Report Vulvar cancer is a rare malignancy, representing approximately 4% of the female genital tract malignancies. This case emphasizes the importance of considering the unusual diagnosis of vulval cancer in a young woman when confronted with a large or recurrent Bartholin gland lesion, and underlines the need for careful pathological examination of such specimens. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC3168041/ /pubmed/21938116 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.55489 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Nayak, Ashwini U Sundari, N Nandini, G Wolf in lamb's skin: Vulval carcinoma mimicking bartholin gland abscess |
title | Wolf in lamb's skin: Vulval carcinoma mimicking bartholin gland abscess |
title_full | Wolf in lamb's skin: Vulval carcinoma mimicking bartholin gland abscess |
title_fullStr | Wolf in lamb's skin: Vulval carcinoma mimicking bartholin gland abscess |
title_full_unstemmed | Wolf in lamb's skin: Vulval carcinoma mimicking bartholin gland abscess |
title_short | Wolf in lamb's skin: Vulval carcinoma mimicking bartholin gland abscess |
title_sort | wolf in lamb's skin: vulval carcinoma mimicking bartholin gland abscess |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168041/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21938116 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.55489 |
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