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Vulvar vestibulitis syndrome (VVS) is a long lasting disorder of superficial dyspareunia in young women. Quantitative sensory testing, including mechanical and temperature pain thresholds and warm/cold difference limen (WCL), was performed in the vestibular mucosa in 22 women (mean age 25.0 years) with vestibulitis and 20 control subjects (mean age 25.6 years). The tests were carried out on days 7-11 of the menstrual cycle. Patients had allodynia to mechanical testing with von Frey filaments, 14.3+/-3.1mN in the symptomatic posterior area as compared with 158+/-33.5mN in healthy subjects, P<0.0001. The pain threshold to heat was 38.6+/-0.6 degrees C in patients and 43.8+/-0.8 degrees C in controls, P<0.0001. In addition, pain threshold to cold was 21.6+/-1.2 degrees C in patients whereas cooling down to 6 degrees C was usually not painful in controls. WCL was 4.9+/-0.5 degrees C in patients and 9.6+/-1.5 degrees C in healthy subjects, P<0.01. The results are compatible with the hypothesis that patients with VVS have an increased innervation and/or sensitization of thermoreceptors and nociceptors in their vestibular mucosa.
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PMID:Psychophysical evidence of nociceptor sensitization in vulvar vestibulitis syndrome. 1169 Jul 31

Botulinum toxin could represent nowadays a new treatment modality especially for cutaneous conditions in course of which conventional treatments remain unsuccessful. Besides palmar and plantar hyperhidrosis, botulinum toxin has demonstrated efficacy in different conditions associated with hyperhidrosis, such as dyshidrosis, multiple eccrine hidrocystomas, hidradenitis suppurativa, Frey syndrome, but also in different conditions worsened by hyperhidrosis such as Hailey-Hailey disease, Darier disease, inversed psoriasis, aquagenic palmoplantar keratoderma, pachyonychia congenital. Moreover, different cutaneous conditions associated with sensitive disorders and/or neurological involvements could benefit from botulinum toxin, for example anal fissures, leg ulcers, lichen simplex, notalgia paresthetica, vestibulitis. Endly, a case of cutis laxa was described where the patient was improved by cutaneous injections of botulinum toxin.
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PMID:[Botulinum toxin in disabling dermatological diseases]. 1957 79