TERMS Flashcards
most common female genital tract pathogens?
found in the coli of healthy individuals
- vulvar pruritis and yeasty odor
- white, granular vaginal discharge
candidiasis
female genital tract infections
most common STD in the western world (40% of women at STD clinics)
mucopurulent cervicitis
ascending infection (PID) endometritis neonatal pneumonia/conjunctivitis
chlamydia
female genital tract infections
common disorder resulting from infection by one or more of the following:
gonococcus, chlamydia, enteric bacteria
pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
name this type of female GU disease?
non neoplastic epithelial disorders; white scaly, plaque like mucosal thickening leukoplakia
vulvar dystophies
what example of vulva disease is this?
chronic atrophic vulvitis, most common in post menopausal women (result of low estrogen-important hormones for maintenance of many epithelial surfaces)
lichen sclerosus
what example of vulva disease is this?
lichen simplex chronicus-women 30-60 yrs old; hyperplasia and hyperkeratosis
squamous hyperplasia
name this type of vulvar neoplasia?
veneral wart
HPV 6/11; sexually transmitted; vulva less commonly involved than cervix
-koliocytosis
tx w/ topical podophyllin or trichloroacetic acid
condyloma accuminatum
name this type of vulvar neoplasia?
uncommon (3% of all genital cancers in females)
white or pigmented vulvar plaques
vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia
name this type of vulvar neoplasia?
rare lesion
arises from primitive epithelial progenitor cells; generally confined to skin
uncommonly assoc with underlying carcinoma
pruritic, red, well demarcated map like lesion
extramammary Paget disease
name this type of vulvar neoplasia?
<5% of vulvar cancers
peak incidence: 6th and 7th decade
capable of widespread metastasis
malignant melanoma
90% of malignant vaginal neoplasms; 1% of malignancies of female genitals
assoc with VIN; most assoc with HPV
affects the upper, posterior vaginal wall
squamous cell carcinoma
these are rare vaginal tumors
increased in women exposed to DES (diethylstilbestrol) in utero; less than 0.14% will develop this tumor
vaginal adenosine is a probabel precursor
clear cell adenocarcinoma
name this cervical disease:
benign inflammatory tumors; occur in 2-5% of adult women
soft, mucoid masses of varying size
dilated endocervical glands
endocervical polyps
what are the cancers of the cervix?
*what does the quadrivalent HPV vaccine protect against?
HPV
cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN)
invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)
high risk types: 16,18, 31,33
*6,11,16 & 18
what is this type of cervical cancer?
precedes majority of cancers, continuum of morphologic changes; assoc with HPV
does not invariably progress, classified by nuclear atypia and maturation
cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN)
