A practical guide to vulval disease : diagnosis and management / Fiona Lewis [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Fiona M., 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vulva--Diseases.

Vulva.

Vulva--Diseases--Popular works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

Summary:

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO VULVAL DISEASE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO VULVAL DISEASE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT Patients with vulval disease frequently experience delays in diagnosis due to a lack of training for physicians. A Practical Guide to Vulval Disease: Diagnosis and Management offers practical, up-to-date and expert guidance on the diagnosis and management of vulval disorders. It provides the knowledge required for diagnosis and treatment of these conditions at both trainee and specialist level. Key information about diagnosis, investigation and basic management is included, with a section on signs and symptoms to direct the reader to the appropriate chapter for the particular disease. Current classification and terminology of vulval disease is featured, along with guidance on when a patient should be referred to a specialist. Well illustrated, with 185 high quality photographs, this user-friendly clinical guidebook integrates clinical and histological features of vulval disorders, so the reader can understand the disease from a microscopic to macroscopic level. Written by an experienced author team, A Practical Guide to Vulval Disease: Diagnosis and Management is essential reading for gynaecologists, dermatologists, genito-urinary physicians, general practitioners and nurses, both in practice and in training.

Contents:

The normal vulva

Taking a history and examination

How to take a vulval biopsy and the importance of clinico-pathological correlation

Basic histology of the vulva

Investigations in vulval disease

Topical treatment in vulval disease

Symptoms in vulval disease

Signs in vulval disease

Eczema, allergy and the vulva

Psoriasis

Lichen simplex

Lichen sclerosus

Lichen planus

Hidradenitis suppurativa and Crohn's disease

Disorders of pigmentation on the vulva

Other dermatoses

Vulval infection : sexually transmitted

Vulval infection : non-sexually transmitted

Vulval intraepithelial neoplasia

Extramammary Paget's disease

Vulval squamous cell carcinoma

Other vulval cancers

Vulvodynia

Psychosexual aspects of vulval disease

Benign lesions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119146063

1119146062

9781119146070

1119146070

9781119146087

1119146089

OCLC:

957705233