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The management of vulvovaginal warts using intralesional Bacillus Calmette–Guérin immunotherapy
Genital warts/condyloma acuminata is the most common mucosal human papillomavirus (HPV) infection encountered by the dermatologists. They can be asymptomatic or symptomatic. They can present as discrete lesions or confluent masses. Depending on the HPV strains, lesions can either be benign or may tu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8000664/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33817597 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.IJSTD_62_19 |
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description | Genital warts/condyloma acuminata is the most common mucosal human papillomavirus (HPV) infection encountered by the dermatologists. They can be asymptomatic or symptomatic. They can present as discrete lesions or confluent masses. Depending on the HPV strains, lesions can either be benign or may turn malignant. The treatment modalities for genital warts range from topical, systemic, intralesional immunotherapy, and surgical interventions (intralesional immunotherapy has shown promising results in the treatment of viral and genital warts). However, there are very few reports that have used Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) as immunotherapy in genital warts. Here, we report, in author's opinion, the first case of female vulvovaginal warts successfully treated with intralesional BCG immunotherapy, leading to complete resolution of injected warts as well as near-distant warts. |
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spelling | pubmed-80006642021-04-01 The management of vulvovaginal warts using intralesional Bacillus Calmette–Guérin immunotherapy Gupta, Sunil Kumar Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Case Reports Genital warts/condyloma acuminata is the most common mucosal human papillomavirus (HPV) infection encountered by the dermatologists. They can be asymptomatic or symptomatic. They can present as discrete lesions or confluent masses. Depending on the HPV strains, lesions can either be benign or may turn malignant. The treatment modalities for genital warts range from topical, systemic, intralesional immunotherapy, and surgical interventions (intralesional immunotherapy has shown promising results in the treatment of viral and genital warts). However, there are very few reports that have used Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) as immunotherapy in genital warts. Here, we report, in author's opinion, the first case of female vulvovaginal warts successfully treated with intralesional BCG immunotherapy, leading to complete resolution of injected warts as well as near-distant warts. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8000664/ /pubmed/33817597 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.IJSTD_62_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Reports Gupta, Sunil Kumar The management of vulvovaginal warts using intralesional Bacillus Calmette–Guérin immunotherapy |
title | The management of vulvovaginal warts using intralesional Bacillus Calmette–Guérin immunotherapy |
title_full | The management of vulvovaginal warts using intralesional Bacillus Calmette–Guérin immunotherapy |
title_fullStr | The management of vulvovaginal warts using intralesional Bacillus Calmette–Guérin immunotherapy |
title_full_unstemmed | The management of vulvovaginal warts using intralesional Bacillus Calmette–Guérin immunotherapy |
title_short | The management of vulvovaginal warts using intralesional Bacillus Calmette–Guérin immunotherapy |
title_sort | management of vulvovaginal warts using intralesional bacillus calmette–guérin immunotherapy |
topic | Case Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8000664/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33817597 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.IJSTD_62_19 |
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