[Bowenoid papulosis. Review of 4 cases in a health center].
OBJECTIVE
To check the clinical, histological, evolutionary and therapeutic characteristics of Bowen's Disease.


METHODS
A descriptive study of a crossover type.


METHODS
Primary Care and a Dermatology clinic at a Health Centre.


METHODS
There were 4 adult males, aged between 25 and 31, with pigmented papulosis lesions on their external genitals. Two of them were HIV-positive.


RESULTS
Clinical records were used. The diagnosis was confirmed through histological analysis. In all cases the lesions were papulosis, multiple and affecting the external genitals. The patients were clinically controlled until the lesions disappeared. The patients' sexual partners were referred to Gynaecology clinics for examination, but no pathology was found in any of them.


CONCLUSIONS
Basic knowledge of Bowen's Disease in Primary Care is important given that it is essential to reach a diagnosis as early as possible, in order to monitor the patient and his partner and so avoid any future complications arising from the pathology's presence, such as tumour processes affecting the uterine cervix. The performance of histological analyses when faced with any suspicious genital lesion must be encouraged, given that this technique is non-aggressive.
Manzano de Arostegui
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Centro de Salud V Centenario, San Sebastián de los Reyes, Madrid.
Borbujo Martínez
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Juez Juez
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Calderón Ubeda
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Manget Velasco
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Casado Jiménez
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D000328:Adult; D001913:Bowen's Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D004564:Electrocoagulation; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010412:Penile Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D011033:Podophyllin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy
D011033:Podophyllin
Papulosis bowenoide. Revisión de cuatro casos en un centro de salud.