A surgical operation to remove the vulva.
Surgical removal of all or part of the vulva, usually done to treat malignant or premalignant neoplastic disease.
Surgical removal of the vulva (external female genital area) and the lymph nodes in the groin. A vulvectomy is the most common and effective treatment for cancer of the vulva. Sexual intercourse is possible after a vulvectomy, although some women are not able to achieve orgasm because much of the sexually sensitive tissue of the clitoris has been removed.
Surgical excision of the external genitals. In simple vulvectomy the labia majora and minora and the clitoris are surgically removed, usually to treat a non-malignant growth. A more extensive operation is radical vulvectomy in which there is wide excision of the two labia and the clitoris along with complete removal of all regional lymph nodes on both sides and the covering skin. This procedure is carried out to treat cancer of the vulva.
Excision of the vulva, used to manage cancers of the vulva. Surgical approaches depend on the extent of the disease. They range from simple vulvar excision (for small, confined lesions with no lymph node involvement) to radical vulvectomy with bilateral superficial and deep inguinal node dissection. If metastasis is extensive, resection may include the urethra, vagina, and rectum. Plastic surgery, including pelvic area reconstruction via a mucocutaneous graft may be carried out at a later date.