Skin diseases of the vulva: inflammatory, erosive-ulcerating and apocrine gland diseases, zinc and vitamin deficiency, vulvodynia and vestibulodynia

Abstract

Chronic, inflammatory and ulcerating mucocutaneous diseases that can affect the vulvar area are reviewed: lichen sclerosus, lichen planus, plasma cell vulvitis, complex aphthosis, Behcet’s disease, pyoderma gangrenosum, metastatic Crohn’s disease, dyskeratotic skin diseases (Hailey–Hailey disease and Darier’s disease), autoimmune bullous diseases (mucous membrane pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris) and hidradenitis suppurativa. Also, vulvodynia and vestibulodynia, zinc and vitamin B deficiency are described.

Keywords:

• Vulvar skin diseases
• lichen planus
• lichen sclerosus
• complex aphthosis
• pyoderma gangrenosum
• autoimmune bullous diseases

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