Plasma cell vulvitis: A rare cause of intractable vulvar pruritis

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 789-790

  Goldstein, Andrew T ^a   Christopher, Kurt ^b   Burrows, Lara J ^b  

^a Center for Vulvovaginal Disorders   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOBETASOL; ESTRADIOL; FLUCONAZOLE; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2B INTERFERON; TERCONAZOLE; TRIAMCINOLONE; ALPHA2B INTERFERON;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COLPOSCOPY; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LICHENOID; NOTE; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVA PRURITUS; VULVAR VESTIBULITIS; VULVITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LETTER; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRURITUS;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; INTERFERON ALFA-2B; PLASMA CELLS; PRURITUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVITIS;

EID: 21844461331     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.141.6.789     Document Type: Note

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