Abstract

VulVoVaginitis in children and teens: releVance of clinical diagnosis

Highlights

  • Vaginal discharge is the most frequent complaint in Gynecology at any age

  • Several authors agree that when it comes to urinary urgency and dysuria, pre-menarche girls usually look for Pediatric urology

  • Diagnoses, therapies and outcomes in children and adolescents assisted in a university hospital. It is a retrospective study conducted in the Infant-Puberal Gynecology Outpatient clinic of HUAP, with medical records of patients aged up to 15 years old, from 01/01/2002 to 31/12/2012, with main complaint suggestive of vulvovaginitis

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Introduction

Vaginal discharge is the most frequent complaint in Gynecology at any age. Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology has specific features that differentiate it from gynecological care of women from other age groups. Objective: To evaluate the relevance of the clinical diagnosis face to the complaints suggestive of vulvovaginitis in children and adolescents. Subjects and Methods: Children and adolescents up to the of age of 15 years were selected for this retrospective study. They were looked after at the Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Ambulatory of the Hospital Universitário Antonio Pedro from 01/01/2002 to 31/12/2012. Conclusions: The relevance of the clinical diagnosis was proved, face to the complaints suggestive of vulvovaginitis, as 93.1 % of the study group did not show any kind of pathology. Other causes of gynecological care during childhood and adolescence are: coalescence of the labia minora; genitourinary malformations; premature thelarche, adrenarche and puberty; breast changes, several menstrual changes, of flow volume, period time and cycle, being the latter part of the axis maturation; tumors[6]

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