Verrucous carcinoma of the vulva in Turner syndrome.
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.
Iwamoto
Ichiro
I
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan. ichiro@m.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.
Kijima
Yoshiko
Y
Fujino
Toshinori
T
Yoshinaga
Mitsuhiro
M
Douchi
Tsutomu
T
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