title: A rare mass formation of the vulva: giant cavernous hemangioma.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Vulvar hemangioma is an extremely rare pathology in adult women causing sexual dysfunction, pain, and cosmetic problems requiring therapeutic intervention.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present a case of an isolated giant vulvar cavernous hemangioma with a 2-year history that macroscopically seemed to be a vulvar varicosis but was actually detected at the end to be cavernous hemangioma in an adult patient with no history of other disease.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patient was treated with surgical excision because of progressive complaints. Histopathologic evaluation suggested cavernous hemangioma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hemangiomas can undergo spontaneous involution; thus, treatment may be reserved for those lesions of functional or psychological concern. In this case, surgical correction was used both as a diagnostic method and as a therapeutic intervention because of progressive complaints such as pain, feeling of pressure, and sexual dysfunction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey. fbcebesoy@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Fatma Bahar
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Cebesoy
authors.forename: Irfan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kutlar
authors.forename: Abdullah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aydin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D014846:Vulvar Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery