Vaginal osseous metaplasia.
BACKGROUND
Osseous metaplasia is an unusual event in the gynecologic organs. It has been reported mostly in the endometrium and rarely in the cervix.


METHODS
The authors describe a rare case of bone formation in vaginal mucosa of a 52-year-old woman with chronic pelvic pain and exteriorization of bone from vaginal introit.


CONCLUSIONS
To our knowledge, this finding has not been reported yet in the English medical literature.
Landim
Fábio Machado
FM
Department of Surgery and Oncologic Surgeon, Dr Waldemar de Alcântara General Hospital, Member of International Gynecologic Cancer Society, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. flandim@ibest.com.br
Tavares
José Marconi
JM
de Melo Braga
Deborah Nunes
DN
da Silva
Jose Erialdo
JE
Bastos Filho
Joao Bosco Breckenfeld
JB
Feitosa
Roney Gonçalves Fechine
RG
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D008679:Metaplasia; D008875:Middle Aged; D009999:Ossification, Heterotopic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014621:Vagina / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014623:Vaginal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery