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ArticleSexual medicine2017

Cervical Ectropion May Be a Cause of Desquamative Inflammatory Vaginitis.

Leia Mitchell, Michelle King, Heather Brillhart, Andrew Goldstein

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Article in Sexual medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Leia MitchellThe Centers for Vulvovaginal Disorders, Washington, DC, and New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: leiamitchell11@gmail.com.
Michelle KingThe Centers for Vulvovaginal Disorders, Washington, DC, and New York, NY, USA; Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
Heather BrillhartGeorge Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.
Andrew GoldsteinThe Centers for Vulvovaginal Disorders, Washington, DC, and New York, NY, USA; George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.
George Washington University · USThe Centers · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Desquamative inflammatory vaginitis is a poorly understood chronic vaginitis with an unknown etiology. Symptoms of desquamative inflammatory vaginitis include copious yellowish discharge, vulvovaginal discomfort, and dyspareunia. Cervical ectropion, the presence of glandular columnar cells on the ectocervix, has not been reported as a cause of desquamative inflammatory vaginitis. Although cervical ectropion can be a normal clinical finding, it has been reported to cause leukorrhea, metrorrhagia, dyspareunia, and vulvovaginal irritation. Patients with cervical ectropion and desquamative inflammatory vaginitis are frequently misdiagnosed with candidiasis or bacterial vaginosis and repeatedly treated without resolution of symptoms. We report the case of a 34-year-old woman with a 4-year history of profuse yellowish discharge and dyspareunia. Upon presentation, her symptoms and laboratory results met the criteria for desquamative inflammatory vaginitis, but the standard treatments did not provide long-lasting relief. As a last resort, cryotherapy (cryosurgery) of her cervix was performed for treatment of her cervical ectropion, which provided complete resolution of her symptoms. Mitchell L, King M, Brillhart H, Goldstein A. Cervical Ectropion May Be a Cause of Desquamative Inflammatory Vaginitis. Sex Med 2017;5:e212-e214.

Indexed as

Cervical EctopyCervical EctropionCervicitisCryosurgeryCryotherapyDesquamative Inflammatory Vaginitis

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PMID28460993
PMCPMC5562466
OpenAlexW2608898829

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