Abstract
Background
Postoperative complications after transverse vaginal septum excision include stricture
formation. The purpose of this report is to describe use of intralesional corticosteroid
injections for vaginal strictures.
Case
A 32-year-old gravida 0 with history of transverse vaginal septum and recurrent strictures
presented for follow-up of chronic pelvic pain. After her fourth septum revision,
the patient underwent a total of 7 triamcinolone injections at the septum tissue.
The course of triamcinolone injections improved the stricture and patient's pain.
Summary and Conclusion
Steroid injection into the vaginal septum tissue can be a safe and effective adjuvant
therapy after septum resection. Although it is an established adjuvant therapy in
other specialties, further studies are warranted to show a decrease in the recurrence
rate of vaginal strictures.
Key Words
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: June 18, 2018
Accepted:
June 8,
2018
Received in revised form:
June 3,
2018
Received:
April 15,
2018
Footnotes
The authors indicate no conflicts of interest.
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Copyright
© 2018 North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Published by Elsevier Inc.
