Two Cases of Congenital Vaginal Absence

Park, Sung Chul; Shin, Hyun Jin; Kim, Hyo Hyun; Lee, Tae Hyung; Lee, Sung Ho; Lee, Doo Jin

doi:2007.24.2 Suppl.S710

J Yeungnam Med Sci > Volume 24(2 Suppl); 2007 > Article

Case Report

Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine 2007;24(2 Suppl):S710-718.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12701/yujm.2007.24.2S.S710 Published online December 31, 2007.

Two Cases of Congenital Vaginal Absence

Sung Chul Park¹, Hyun Jin Shin², Hyo Hyun Kim³, Tae Hyung Lee¹, Sung Ho Lee¹, Doo Jin Lee¹

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Korea
²Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Korea
³Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Korea

선천성 질 무발생 환자 2 예

박성철¹, 신현진², 김효헌³, 이태형¹, 이승호¹, 이두진¹

¹영남대학교 의과대학 산부인과학교실
²영남대학교 의료공학연구소
³영남대학교 의과대학 성형외과학교실

Correspondence: Doo Jin Lee, Tel: (053) 620-3435, Fax: (053) 654-0676,
Email: djlee@med.yu.ac.kr

Abstract

Congenital absence of vagina(Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome) is found between 1 in 4,000 and 20,000 female births, and is frequently associated with various urinary tract and skeletal anomalies. As the patients have normal ovarian functions, they appear as normal female phenotype and have normal female karyotype 46, XX. Inability of coitus is one of the main problems they have, so the goal of treatment is to create a vagina adequate to allow sexual activity. Both surgical and nonsurgical approaches have been utilized. The authors experienced two cases of congenital absence of vagina successfully treated by surgical and nonsurgical method.

Key Words: Congenital absence of vagina, Ingram method, McIndoe operation