title: Intraepithelial carcinoma of the vulva with extension to the anal canal.
abstract: Ten patients with intraepithelial carcinoma of the vulva that extended to the anus were studied. The patients were seen and treated over a 3-year period, from January 1976 through December 1978. During the 10-year period before 1976 the authors had encountered no patients with this problem. Treatment consisted predominantly of a skinning vulvectomy with split-thickness skin graft and excision of the anal disease. Failure to recognize the extension to the anus will result in persistent disease following surgical therapy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001005:Anus Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D002278:Carcinoma in Situ / Q000601:surgery*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014846:Vulvar Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*