VULVAR FUSION

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Fused vulva (synechia vulvae) designates the condition characterized by an embryonal midline sealing together of the labia minora; usually a minute unfused area is left well forward, and through this orifice the child urinates. The foregoing represents the incomplete variety of fusion which in statistical studies occurs in approximately a third of the cases; in complete fusion the vulvar union is total. Although I could find nothing in American medical literature of the past twenty-five years appertaining to this subject, surely this does not represent the true incidence of the condition. Yet the appearance of the anomaly is so striking that its correct recognition could scarcely fail to provoke at least a few case reports. Curiously, in none of the nine cases of this condition which I have seen during recent years was the anomaly recognized until some time after birth. All the cases that I have seen were thought

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: