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Vulval dermatoses (venereal and nonvenereal) among female patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in North India

BACKGROUND: The skin and mucosa of the vulva are different from the rest of the human body, as it is derived from all three embryological layers. It is more prone to dermatological diseases, both infectious and noninfectious. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Our study was a prospective descriptive study on fema...

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Autores principales: Kaur, Karamjot, Mohi, Manjit Kaur, Chopra, Dimple, Sarangal, Rishu, Singh Saini, Jatinder Raj, Chopra, Preeyati
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9891011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36743089
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_18_22
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author Kaur, Karamjot
Mohi, Manjit Kaur
Chopra, Dimple
Sarangal, Rishu
Singh Saini, Jatinder Raj
Chopra, Preeyati
author_facet Kaur, Karamjot
Mohi, Manjit Kaur
Chopra, Dimple
Sarangal, Rishu
Singh Saini, Jatinder Raj
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description BACKGROUND: The skin and mucosa of the vulva are different from the rest of the human body, as it is derived from all three embryological layers. It is more prone to dermatological diseases, both infectious and noninfectious. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Our study was a prospective descriptive study on female patients attending the skin outpatient department with complaints of vulval dermatoses. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of venereal and nonvenereal dermatoses (infectious and non-infectious) along with age-wise distribution of these in our area. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All female patients presenting with visible skin lesions on the vulva from January 2019 to December 2019 were included in this study. Various diagnostic tests such as Gram staining, Tzanck smear, KOH mount, herpes simplex virus serology, and skin biopsy were performed wherever necessary. OBSERVATIONS AND RESULTS: The study included 520 patients in whom 525 lesions were identified. These were grouped under venereal and non-venereal dermatoses. Nonvenereal dermatoses were further grouped under infectious and non-infectious conditions. Maximum patients were in the age group of 21–40 years (50.19%). The most common dermatoses were non-venereal infections, seen in 220 (42.30%) patients followed by non-venereal, non-infectious dermatoses seen in 177 (34.04%) patients whereas venereal dermatoses were seen in 128 (24.61%) patients. CONCLUSION: Most of the patients were in the reproductive age group, and the prevalence of infectious dermatoses both venereal and non-venereal was much more than that of non-infectious conditions affecting the vulval skin as per our study.
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spelling pubmed-98910112023-02-02 Vulval dermatoses (venereal and nonvenereal) among female patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in North India Kaur, Karamjot Mohi, Manjit Kaur Chopra, Dimple Sarangal, Rishu Singh Saini, Jatinder Raj Chopra, Preeyati Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Original Article BACKGROUND: The skin and mucosa of the vulva are different from the rest of the human body, as it is derived from all three embryological layers. It is more prone to dermatological diseases, both infectious and noninfectious. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Our study was a prospective descriptive study on female patients attending the skin outpatient department with complaints of vulval dermatoses. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of venereal and nonvenereal dermatoses (infectious and non-infectious) along with age-wise distribution of these in our area. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All female patients presenting with visible skin lesions on the vulva from January 2019 to December 2019 were included in this study. Various diagnostic tests such as Gram staining, Tzanck smear, KOH mount, herpes simplex virus serology, and skin biopsy were performed wherever necessary. OBSERVATIONS AND RESULTS: The study included 520 patients in whom 525 lesions were identified. These were grouped under venereal and non-venereal dermatoses. Nonvenereal dermatoses were further grouped under infectious and non-infectious conditions. Maximum patients were in the age group of 21–40 years (50.19%). The most common dermatoses were non-venereal infections, seen in 220 (42.30%) patients followed by non-venereal, non-infectious dermatoses seen in 177 (34.04%) patients whereas venereal dermatoses were seen in 128 (24.61%) patients. CONCLUSION: Most of the patients were in the reproductive age group, and the prevalence of infectious dermatoses both venereal and non-venereal was much more than that of non-infectious conditions affecting the vulval skin as per our study. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9891011/ /pubmed/36743089 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_18_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS https://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 Original Article
Kaur, Karamjot
Mohi, Manjit Kaur
Chopra, Dimple
Sarangal, Rishu
Singh Saini, Jatinder Raj
Chopra, Preeyati
Vulval dermatoses (venereal and nonvenereal) among female patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in North India
title Vulval dermatoses (venereal and nonvenereal) among female patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in North India
title_full Vulval dermatoses (venereal and nonvenereal) among female patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in North India
title_fullStr Vulval dermatoses (venereal and nonvenereal) among female patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in North India
title_full_unstemmed Vulval dermatoses (venereal and nonvenereal) among female patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in North India
title_short Vulval dermatoses (venereal and nonvenereal) among female patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in North India
title_sort vulval dermatoses (venereal and nonvenereal) among female patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in north india
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9891011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36743089
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_18_22
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