An alternative approach to gynecological wound healing

Ginekol Pol. 2017;88(4):222-223. doi: 10.5603/GP.a2017.0042.

Abstract

An 89-year-old woman was reffered to our Clinic with vulvar cancer. She also suffered from obesity [with body mass index (BMI) 35 kg/m2], persistent hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2 treated with oral medications. In 2015 she underwent a surgery due to endometrial carcinoma. Total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salphingoophorectomy, omentectomy and pelvical node dissection was performed (histopathology revealed adenocarcinoma serosum G2; FIGO stage Ib). In January 2016 after vulvar ulceration biopsy plano-epithelial squamous vulvar cancer was diagnosed. She was referred to surgery. She has undergone an operation in October 2016. She was admitted to gynaecological unit at our institution. Physical examination revealed mutilated vulva with excised labia major, labia minor, and narrowing of vaginal orifice. The right side shown tumor 2.5 cm in diameter, with slough area and no deep infiltration and satellital nodule on the left labia majora 1cm in diameter. The cervix, vaginal wall, rectum and anus appeared normal. There were no enlarged lymph nodes at the inguinal area.

Keywords: chronic wound; diabetes; nanosilver TIAB; ulceration; vulvar cancer.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Topical
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / surgery*
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
  • Enterobacteriaceae Infections / therapy*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypochlorous Acid / therapeutic use*
  • Morganella morganii
  • Oxidants / therapeutic use*
  • Pseudomonas Infections / therapy*
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Silver Compounds / therapeutic use*
  • Surgical Flaps
  • Surgical Wound Infection / therapy*
  • Therapeutic Irrigation / methods
  • Titanium / therapeutic use*
  • Vulvar Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Vulvectomy / methods
  • Wound Healing

Substances

  • Oxidants
  • Silver Compounds
  • Hypochlorous Acid
  • Titanium