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Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 430745, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/430745
Case Report

Vulval Elephantiasis: A Case Report

Harsh Mohan,1 Bhumika Bisht,1 Poonam Goel,2 and Geeta Garg3

1Department of Pathology, Government Medical College, Sector 32-A, Chandigarh 160031, India
2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Government Medical College, Sector 32-A, Chandigarh 160030, India
3Department of Dermatology & Venereology, Government Medical College, Sector 32-A, Chandigarh 160030, India

Received 30 July 2012; Accepted 1 October 2012

Academic Editors: X. Vallès and L. Yamuah

Copyright © 2012 Harsh Mohan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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