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      Blaustein’s Pathology of the Female Genital Tract 

      Benign Diseases of the Vulva

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          Mammary-like glands of the vulva and their disorders.

          Supernumerary mammary glands derived from rudiments of the embryonic milk lines or mammary ridges in the vulva are considered a source of a series of unusual tumors resembling lesions of the breasts. This phenomenon was reevaluated in light of recent observations of mammary-like anogenital glands (MLG), which are a normal constituent of the vulva and appear to be closely related to eccrine glands. An analysis of the literature reveals that the concept of "milk lines" originated in a mixture of phylogenetic and ontogenetic theories at the beginning of this century and was not supported by observations in human embryos, which show that primordia of the mammary glands do not extend beyond the axillary-pectoral area. The breasts and the vulva are so widely separated by time and space that the vulvar MLG can not be derived from the mammary ridges or milk lines. The profile of the MLG, which can also reveal some eccrine or apocrine features, makes these glands the most likely source of a series of lesions occurring in the anogenital region and comprising lactating glands, lactating adenoma, fibroadenoma, hidrocystoma, hidradenoma papilliferum, and most cases of extramammary Paget's disease and invasive adenocarcinoma.
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            The presence of IgE molecules on epidermal langerhans cells in patients with atopic dermatitis

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              Underdiagnosis of genital herpes by current clinical and viral-isolation procedures.

              The current clinical strategy for diagnosing genital herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection in women relies on clinical findings plus the selective use of viral culture. The effectiveness of this approach for identifying women with genital herpes is unknown. We performed physical examinations, colposcopy, Pap smears, viral cultures, and HSV type-specific serologic assays of 779 randomly selected women attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Evidence of HSV type 2 infection was detected in 363 women (47 percent), and 9 others (1 percent) had positive cultures indicative of urogenital or anal infection with HSV type 1. Of these 372 women, only 82 (22 percent) had symptoms. Fourteen women (4 percent) had viral shedding without symptoms, 60 (16 percent) had formerly had symptomatic episodes, and 216 (58 percent) had antibodies to HSV-2 with neither viral shedding nor a history of clinical episodes. Characteristic ulcerations of the external genitalia were present in only two thirds of the 66 women with positive HSV cultures; the others had atypical genital lesions or asymptomatic viral shedding. Isolation of HSV from a genitourinary tract specimen was the most sensitive (77 percent) test for confirming a first episode of infection. The detection of HSV-2-specific antibodies was the most sensitive (97 percent) way to confirm symptomatic reactivations of HSV-2 infection. HSV-2 serologic testing also identified the 290 women with asymptomatic HSV-2 infections (37 percent), including 14 (5 percent) who were shedding virus asymptomatically on the day of the examination. The current strategy for diagnosing genital HSV infection in women misses many cases. Newly developed type-specific serologic methods can identify women with recurrent genital HSV-2 infection, as well as those with unrecognized or subclinical infection.
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                1994
                : 31-86
                10.1007/978-1-4757-3889-6_2
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