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Foreign Body in the Vagina of A Four-Year-Old-Girl: A Childish Prank or Sexual Abuse
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, attemp...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Kowsar
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4080480/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25032156 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijhrba.10534 |
Sumario: | 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 inserted a foreign body in her vagina probably due to childish prank. CONCLUSIONS: The clinicians should always think of foreign bodies in the vagina in cases of chronic, antibiotic resistant vaginal discharge and lower abdominal pain especially in young girls. |
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