A Practical Guide to Vulval Disease: Diagnosis and Management

A Practical Guide to Vulval Disease: Diagnosis and Management Dr Fiona Lewis, St Johns Institute of Dermatology and Wexham Park Hospital (Frimley Health Foundation Trust), UK. Dr Fabrizio Bogliatto, Chivasso Civic Hospital in Turin, Italy. Dr Marc van Beurden, Netherlands Cancer Institute.   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 with185 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.   www.wiley.com/go/obgyn

Part 1.

Chapter 1 The normal vulva

Chapter 2 – Taking a history and examination

Chapter 3 – How to take a vulval biopsy and the importance of clinic–pathological correlation

Chapter 4 – Basic vulval histology, with a glossary of terms used to describe the histopathological features of disease

Chapter 5 – Other investigations in vulval disease eg. patch testing, swabs, serology

Chapter 6 – Treatment in vulval disease topical, systemic and others

Chapter 7 – Symptoms in vulval disease, with lists of the main diagnoses to consider for each symptom cross references to chapters on specific diseases in Part 2.

Chapter 8 – Clinical signs in vulval disease, with lists of the main diagnoses to consider for each symptom cross references to chapters on specific diseases in Part 2.

Part 2.

Chapter 9 Eczema

Chapter 10 – Psoriasis

Chapter 11 Lichen simplex

Chapter 12 – Lichen sclerosus

Chapter 13 – Lichen planus

Chapter 14 – Hidradenitis suppurativa

Chapter 15 Disorders of pigmentation

Chapter 16 – Other dermatoses that can affect the vulva

Chapter 17– Infection sexually transmitted

Chapter 18 Infection non–sexually transmitted

Chapter 19 – Vulval intra–epithelial neoplasia

Chapter 20– Extra–mammary Paget s disease

Chapter 21 – Squamous cell carcinoma

Chapter 22 – Other vulval cancers eg. melanoma, basal cell carcinoma

Chapter 23 Vulvodynia

Chapter 24 Psychosexual aspects of vulval disease

Chapter 25 Other conditions eg. traumatic lesions, drug eruptions