title: Verrucous carcinoma of the vulva in Turner syndrome.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Verrucous carcinoma of the vulva in a patient with Turner syndrome is extremely rare.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 7.5 x 4 cm exophytic tumor of the vulva with a palpable ipsilateral groin lymph node developed in a 41-year-old single nulligravid Japanese woman with short stature and a history of primary amenorrhea. Analysis of karyotype demonstrated mosaic Turner syndrome. She underwent total deep vulvectomy with en-block inguinal femoral lymphadenectomy. Histopathological finding of the extirpated specimen demonstrated verrucous carcinoma with clear margins and the absence of metastasis to the lymph nodes. There was no sign of HPV genome detected in the carcinoma tissue.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This seems to be the first case of vulvar verrucous carcinoma in a patient with Turner syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan. ichiro@m.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Iwamoto
authors.forename: Yoshiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kijima
authors.forename: Toshinori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujino
authors.forename: Mitsuhiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshinaga
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Douchi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018289:Carcinoma, Verrucous / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping; D014424:Turner Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics; D014846:Vulvar Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics