Is vulvar dystrophy the same as vulvar leukoplakia?

Many female friends cannot distinguish between vulvar dystrophy and vulvar leukoplakia. Normally, we also find that some women will suffer from vulvar leukoplakia or vulvar dystrophy, which makes female friends feel particularly painful. In fact, our careful friends will find out what the two are. Are vulvar dystrophy and vulvar leukoplakia the same? Let’s find out below.

Chronic vulvar malnutrition refers to a disease in which the vulvar skin and mucous membranes undergo tissue degeneration and pigment changes due to nutritional disorders. For many years, obstetricians and gynecologists have collectively referred to lesions such as whitening, keratinization, and atrophy of the vulvar skin or mucous membrane as "vulvar leukoplakia", believing that it is a precancerous lesion and that the symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia may develop into vulvar cancer, so they advocate vulvectomy as early as possible.

However, some pathologists disagree with this diagnostic term, believing that "vulvar leukoplakia" should only be diagnosed when atypical proliferative changes such as irregular arrangement of prickle cells, unequal cell size and shape, darkly stained nuclei and increased mitotic phases occur. Because of the different diagnostic standards, there will inevitably be inconsistent understanding of the disease and differences in treatment principles. In order to unify the understanding, in 1975 the International Association for the Study of Vulvar Diseases decided to cancel the name of "vulvar leukoplakia" and change it to "chronic vulvar nutritional imbalance".

After the above introduction, I believe everyone has the same opinion about vulvar dystrophy and vulvar leukoplakia? With a certain understanding, if we find something unusual in our body in our daily life, no matter what the situation and reason is, we must go to the hospital for examination and treatment, especially the genitals are the most important part for women, so we should pay more attention to it.