Carcinoma verrucoso y miasis vaginal: a propósito de un caso / Verrucose carcinoma and vaginal myasis: about a case
Medicina (Guayaquil)
; 14(3): 229-232, abr. 2009.
Article
in Spanish
| LILACS
| ID: lil-617771
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EC53.2
RESUMEN
La infestación de tumores del tracto genital inferior por parásitos o larvas vivas es un acontecimiento raro, pocas veces reportado en la literatura. Presentamos el caso de una paciente de 82 años que acude a la emergencia de ginecología por presentar tumor ulcerado localizado en el tercio inferior de la pared vaginal izquierda, colonizado por múltiples larvas vivas. Nos parece importante el caso debido a la naturaleza rara de la misma, ya que existen pocos reportes en la literatura a nivel mundial. Consideramos necesario educar a la comunidad femenina para que acuda a sus controles anuales de rutina, y más aún ante la presencia de masas a nivel vulvar o vaginal, ya que por su crecimiento lento e indoloro se le resta importancia a este evento.
ABSTRACT
The infestation of tumors of the inferior genital tract for parasites or alive larvas is an event extraordinarily strange, few times reported in the literature. We present the case of a 82 year-old patient that goes to the gynecology emergency for great ulcerated tumor located in the inferior third of wall vaginal left, colonized by multiple alive larvas. We find important the case due to the strange nature of the same one, since few reports exist in the literature, what corroborates the previously exposed thing. We consider necessary to educate to the feminine community so that she goes to their annual controls of routine, and stiller before the presence of masses at level vulvar or vaginal, since maybe for their slow and painless growth she is subtracted importance.
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Collection:
International databases
Health context:
SDG3 - Health and Well-Being
Health problem:
Target 3.3: End transmission of communicable diseases
Database:
LILACS
Main subject:
Vagina
/
Condylomata Acuminata
/
Carcinoma, Verrucous
/
Myiasis
Limits:
Adult
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Medicina (Guayaquil)
Journal subject:
Cincias da Sa£de
/
Medicine
/
Pesquisa
/
Sa£de P£blica
Year:
2009
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Ecuador