[Chronic vulvar pruritus caused by terminal-fibre neuroma episiotomy scar (author's transl)].
Elucidation of pathogenesis is a major prerequisite for successful treatment of chronic vulvar pruritus. With the great number of episiotomies in modern obstetrics, episiotomy scars count as possible cause of pruritus. Traumatic terminal-fibre neuroma was established as pathogenetic factor in one case. Such almost a structural tumour was not histologically recordable unless special methods were applied.
D000328:Adult; D002921:Cicatrix; D004841:Episiotomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009463:Neuroma / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D011539:Pruritus Vulvae / Q000209:etiology*
Chronischer Pruritis vulvae durch ein Terminalfaserneurom in einer Episiotomienarbe.