/lower Genital Schistosmiasis :

Ismail Ismail Abd El Khalied Ghoniem

With regard to the subject of incidence of schistosomiasis of female lower genital tract, among schistosomalEgyptian women (300 cases infested with urinary and/or intestinal schistosomiasis)the following resultswere reached:-(1) Schistosomiasis is prevalent among Egyptian females.(2) There was a high incidence of dysmenorrhoea, leuchrrhoea, backache and pruritis vulval among the infectedfemales.(3) The incidence of lower genital organs schistosomiasis among patients infested with urinary and/or intestinalschistosomiasis is (2.66 percent).(4) The schistosomal vulval lesions constitute 0.66%. The vaginal lesions constitute 0.66%, and the cervicallesions constitute 1.33% among patients with urinary and/or intestinal schistosomiasis.(5) Among the eight positive cases, the cervix was the commonest site of schistosomal affections (50 %),followed by both vagina and vulva (each 25 %).(6) All the examined positive schistosomiasis lesions of the female lower genital organs were caused bySchistosoma haematoblum.(7) The degree and type of tissue reaction varies considerably in similar organs of different patients and in the same organs. There was no relation between the number of deposited ova and the severity of the infection.(8) By cytological examination we can find one case positive schistosomiasis in the smear taken from posterior foraix and ectocervix, and another caseof mild atypia.