Initiate Surgical Therapy
Surgery should be reserved for use in patients with pain of at least six months' duration, pain that partly or completely prevents sexual intercourse and patients who have undergone failed treatment for a specific subset of vulvodynia or in whom no cause can be established. Surgical excision of vulvar tissue containing vestibular glands has been reported to alleviate symptoms in up to two thirds of patients
Sarah J. Thompson, MD
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