A Case of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Bartholin's Gland.

Joo, Won Duk; Kim, Mi Kyung; Lee, Sung Won; Choi, Kyung Chan; Lee, Dong Hun; Kim, Jong Hyeok; Kim, Yong Man; Kim, Young Tak; Mok, Jung Eun; Nam, Joo Hyun

Case Report

Korean Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2002;45(10):1875-1879.
Published online October 1, 2002.

A Case of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Bartholin's Gland.

Won Duk Joo, Mi Kyung Kim, Sung Won Lee, Kyung Chan Choi, Dong Hun Lee, Jong Hyeok Kim, Yong Man Kim, Young Tak Kim, Jung Eun Mok, Joo Hyun Nam

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
²Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Hanlim, Chunchon Sacred Heart Hospital, Chunchon, Korea.
³Department of Pathology, University of Hanlim, Chunchon Sacred Heart Hospital, Chunchon, Korea.
⁴Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Korea.

Abstract

We report a case of squamous cell carcinoma of Bartholin's gland for the first time in Korea. The patient had diagnosed unexpectedly by an incidental Rt. Bartholin's cystectomy at Chunchon Sacred Heart Hospital. She was transferred to Asan Medical Center and performed Rt. hemivulvectomy with ipsilateral inguinal-femoral lymph node dissection for staging. She was FIGO stage II (T2N0M0) and has been followed up for 9 months without any evidence of recurrence. Squamous cell carcinoma of Bartholin's gland is very rare among the female genital malignancies. The treatment of this malignancy is not established yet. So it should be individualized to the patient by the resectability and the status of resection margin involvement.

Key Words: Bartholin's gland, Squamous cell carcinoma