Wrong diagnoses of child sexual abuse

["Oddone Virginio" <oddovir@xxxxxxxxx> ()]

The latest issue of British Medical Journal has a paper on cases of vulvar
dermatological abnormalities that can be mistaken for sexual abuse:

P L Wood and T Bevan - "Lesson of the week Child sexual abuse enquiries and
unrecognised vulval lichen sclerosus et atrophicus" - BMJ 1999; 319:
899-900.

The paper may be found at http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7214/899,
or at BMJ website is http://www.bmj.com

Virginio

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Virginio Oddone MD
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10121 - Torino (Italy)
e-mail: oddovir@ipsnet.it