- Presents current knowledge on vulvar disease
- Offers up-to-date guidance on diagnosis and treatment
- Employs the contemporary terminology of the ISSVD
- Includes informative illustrations and access to online videos
This book offers comprehensive information on modern approaches to vulvar lesions, taking into account recent management recommendations and employing the consensus terminology of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (ISSVD). Further, it breaks with past misconceptions and myths, and explains in detail the modern approach.
The aim is to help clinicians perform the differential diagnosis of vulvar conditions and implement the new recommended treatments.
The core chapters of the book are arranged in accordance with lesion presentation: red lesions, white lesions, patches and plaques, papules and nodules, erosions and ulcers, blisters, etc. For each lesion, the multidisciplinary management is fully explained, including clarifications of the role of gynecologists, dermatologists, physical therapists, pain specialists, sex therapists, and others. Clinical case presentations and numerous illustrations of treatment procedures are included, supplemented by informative online videos.
A separate chapter is devoted to vulvar pain, which is increasingly becoming recognized as a growing problem. Here, again the past approaches are replaced with new paradigms.
All of the authors are acknowledged experts in the field and the editor is a past president of the ISSVD. The book will be of value for all vulvar specialists and a wide range of other clinicians.
Summary of the Contents- Part I Skin-colored Lesions papules and nodules: Papillomatosis of the vestibule and medial labia minora (a normal finding; not a disease).-
- Part II Skin-colored plaques: Lichen simplex chronicus (LSC) and other lichenified disease.-
- Part III Red lesions: eczematous and lichenified diseases: Allergic contact dermatitis.-
- Part IV Red lesions: red patches and plaques: Candidiasis.-
- Part V Red lesions: papules: Folliculitis.-
- Part VI Red lesions: nodules: Furuncles (“boils”).-
- Part VII White lesions: papules and nodules : Fordyce spots.-
- Part VIII White lesions: patches and plaques: Vitiligo.-
- Part IX Dark colored (brown, blue, gray or black) lesions: patches: Melanocytic nevus.-
- Part X Dark colored (brown, blue, gray or black) lesions: papules and nodules: Melanocytic nevus.-
- Part XI Blisters: vesicles and bullae: Herpesvirus infections (herpes simplex, herpes zoster).-
- Part XII Blisters: Pustules: Candidiasis.-
- Part XIII: Erosions: Excoriations.-
- Part XIV Ulcers: Excoriations (related to eczema, lichen simplex chronicus).-
- Part XV: Skin-coloured edema: Crohn’s disease.-
- Part XVI: Pink or red edema: Venous obstruction.-
- Part XVII: Vulvar pain caused by a specific disorder: Infectious.- Inflammatory.-
- Part XVIII: Vulvodynia descriptors: Localized or Generalized or Mixed (localized and generalized).-
