Clinical manifestations of atrophic vulvar leukoplakia

Vulvar leukoplakia can also be called vulvar white lesions, vulvar white lesions or vulvar dystrophy, because vulvar leukoplakia is a disease of tissue degeneration and pigment changes caused by local nerve and vascular nutrition disorders in the patient's vulva. Clinically, patients with vulvar leukoplakia often show whitening, coarsening or atrophy of the local skin and mucous membranes of the vulva. This disease often occurs in middle-aged and elderly women.

Atrophic vulvar leukoplakia is a type of vulvar leukoplakia. Patients with atrophic vulvar leukoplakia have white patches on their vulvar lesions, and the vulvar skin becomes thinner and shiny to varying degrees. The vulvar lesions of typical atrophic vulvar leukoplakia patients are like cigarette paper. In severe cases, the clitoris shrinks and disappears, the foreskin tightens, the skin wrinkles flatten, and the vaginal opening forms a narrow slit.

1. Early manifestations of atrophic vulvar leukoplakia: Patients with early atrophic vulvar leukoplakia generally have no obvious symptoms. A few patients may experience mild itching and difficulty in sexual intercourse.

Local symptoms: Mild atrophy of the vulva, the skin color of the lesion becomes lighter and whiter, and it also affects the labia minora, clitoris, clitoral frenulum and anus.

2. Mid-stage manifestations of atrophic vulvar leukoplakia: In patients with mid-stage atrophic vulvar leukoplakia, the skin at the lesion becomes whiter and more severe, the skin becomes dry, wrinkled, and inelastic, the labia minora becomes thinner, atrophied, and disappears, and the clitoris atrophies and becomes adherent.

3. In the late stage of atrophic vulvar leukoplakia, the patient's vulva is significantly atrophied.