Benign Diseases of the Vulva and Vagina

Abstract

This comprehensive text will serve as an excellent reference for the practicing physician and as a well-documented treatise on the pathologic histology of this portion of the female body. The chapter on "Embryology" by contributing author Zimmerman, and the section on "Developmental Anomalies of the Vulva and Vagina" by Franklin and Malinak, are concise and very well illustrated. The significance of melanotic lesions has been skirted. Basal cell carcinoma, as well as intraepithelial carcinoma, have been included as relatively benign tumors. The most fatal of all vulval lesions, invasive carcinoma, has been omitted. The authors give as their reason for not including epithelial carcinoma that so many treatises on the subject are available. This is true, but it would seem that a condensed chapter or two on malignant lesions would have added greatly to the usefulness of the text. At best, black and white illustrations can only demonstrate site, contour,