An alternative approach to gynecological wound healing

Ginekologia polska
Jakub RzepkaRomuald Dębski

Abstract

An 89-year-old woman was reffered to our Clinic with vulvar cancer. She also suffered from obesity [with body mass index (BMI) 35 kg/m2], persistent hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2 treated with oral medications. In 2015 she underwent a surgery due to endometrial carcinoma. Total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salphingoophorectomy, omentectomy and pelvical node dissection was performed (histopathology revealed adenocarcinoma serosum G2; FIGO stage Ib). In January 2016 after vulvar ulceration biopsy plano-epithelial squamous vulvar cancer was diagnosed. She was referred to surgery. She has undergone an operation in October 2016. She was admitted to gynaecological unit at our institution. Physical examination revealed mutilated vulva with excised labia major, labia minor, and narrowing of vaginal orifice. The right side shown tumor 2.5 cm in diameter, with slough area and no deep infiltration and satellital nodule on the left labia majora 1cm in diameter. The cervix, vaginal wall, rectum and anus appeared normal. There were no enlarged lymph nodes at the inguinal area.

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