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Vulvar Aphthous Ulcer Following Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine – A Case Report

BACKGROUND: In this case report, we describe a potential association between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and development of a vulvar aphthous ulcer in a virginal 14-year-old girl. CASE: A 14-year-old patient reported vulvar pain and visible lesion. Exam findings were consistent with vulvar...

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Autores principales: Drucker, Abigail, Corrao, Kellianne, Gandy, Mallory
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8552585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34718079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2021.10.007
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author Drucker, Abigail
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description BACKGROUND: In this case report, we describe a potential association between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and development of a vulvar aphthous ulcer in a virginal 14-year-old girl. CASE: A 14-year-old patient reported vulvar pain and visible lesion. Exam findings were consistent with vulvar aphthous ulcers. Two days prior to the onset of her symptoms she received her second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The evening of vaccine administration, she experienced several hours duration of fatigue, muscle aching and insomnia but had otherwise been recently healthy and testing for common viral associations of vulvar ulcers was negative. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: Vaccination, in general, has been associated with mucosal side-effects and oral ulceration has been reported in subjects who received Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. It is reasonable to hypothesize that vulvar ulceration may be caused by a similar mechanism and should be considered a rare side effect of this vaccine.
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spelling pubmed-85525852021-10-29 Vulvar Aphthous Ulcer Following Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine – A Case Report Drucker, Abigail Corrao, Kellianne Gandy, Mallory J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol Article BACKGROUND: In this case report, we describe a potential association between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and development of a vulvar aphthous ulcer in a virginal 14-year-old girl. CASE: A 14-year-old patient reported vulvar pain and visible lesion. Exam findings were consistent with vulvar aphthous ulcers. Two days prior to the onset of her symptoms she received her second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The evening of vaccine administration, she experienced several hours duration of fatigue, muscle aching and insomnia but had otherwise been recently healthy and testing for common viral associations of vulvar ulcers was negative. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: Vaccination, in general, has been associated with mucosal side-effects and oral ulceration has been reported in subjects who received Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. It is reasonable to hypothesize that vulvar ulceration may be caused by a similar mechanism and should be considered a rare side effect of this vaccine. North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-04 2021-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8552585/ /pubmed/34718079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2021.10.007 Text en © 2021 North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Vulvar Aphthous Ulcer Following Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine – A Case Report
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title_full_unstemmed Vulvar Aphthous Ulcer Following Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine – A Case Report
title_short Vulvar Aphthous Ulcer Following Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine – A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8552585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34718079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2021.10.007
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