Open AccessA 16‐Year‐Old Girl With Invasive Carcinoma Of The Vulva
Author(s) -
Nilsson Thomas,
Aim Per,
Malmstrom Henric,
Simonsen Ernst,
Trope Claes
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.3109/00016349009013334
Subject(s) - medicine , vulva , girl , carcinoma , chemotherapy , lymph node , lung , surgery , disease , vulvar diseases , psychology , developmental psychology
We present a 16‐year‐old girl with vulvar squamous cell carcinoma. The patient initially received a radical treatment because of lymph‐node dissemination. However, recurrent disease erupted a little more than one year after the initial treatment, with metastases in the right lung and multiple osteolytic skeletal metastases. Despite aggressive treatments with chemotherapy the patient died about 2 years after the initial diagnosis. An aggressive radical treatment must be chosen for cases of invasive vulvar carcinoma, irrespective of the patient's age.