Metastatic vulvar Crohn′s disease-A rare case report and short review of literature | Zendy

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Metastatic vulvar Crohn′s disease-A rare case report and short review of literature

Author(s) -

Debajit Das,

Bhaskar Gupta,

Mahimanjan Saha

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

indian journal of dermatology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395

H-Index - 36

eISSN - 1998-3611

pISSN - 0019-5154

DOI - 10.4103/0019-5154.174028

Subject(s) - medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , disease , dermatology , crohn's disease , crohn disease , rare disease , vulva , edema , pathology , surgery

Metastatic Crohn's disease (CD), a type of extraintestinal CD may present with gynecological manifestation which causes diagnostic dilemma and needs multidisciplinary approach. Vulvar lesions occur in very small number of cases with CD of which asymmetrical labial swelling and edema is the most common presentation. We report a case of hypertrophic exophytic variety of vulvar CD because of its rarity.

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