Prevalence, causes and outcome of vulval pain in a genitourinary medicine clinic population
- 1 February 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of STD & AIDS
- Vol. 9 (2) , 88-91
- https://doi.org/10.1258/0956462981921738
Abstract
Summary: A detailed assessment was completed on 150 consecutive new female patients attending a walk-in genitourinary medicine clinic, in order to elicit the features of vulval pain. Twenty patients (13.3%) experienced vulval pain, and of these, 15 (75%) had an infective cause demonstrated. Candidiasis was demonstrated in more than half (55%) of them and one-fifth had genital herpes. Of the 5 patients in whom no infection was present, 2 were diagnosed with the vulvar vestibulitis syndrome (VVS) following their referral to the dedicated vulval clinic.Keywords
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