This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (16)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

John M. Goldenring, MD, MPH
Childrens Medical Group 1141 Thousand Oaks Blvd Thousand Oaks, CA 91362

Arch Dermatol. 1987;123(10):1265-1266.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

To the Editor.—

I would like to comment on the recent article by Rock et al on condylomata acuminata in children,¹ and the subsequent editorial by Bender,² speaking from the point of view of a pediatrician involved in the study and evaluation of child sexual abuse and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in children.

Rock et al document evidence of sexual abuse in three of their five cases, approximately the percentage of good documentation that has been obtained in other pediatric cases.³ Another case (No. 3) appears most likely to have been congenitally transmitted, since the patient was less than one year of age.

Beyond one year of age, however, I believe that condylomata acuminata must be considered nearly always as a sexually transmitted phenomenon, unless the presentation is very atypical. Examples of atypical genital lesions would be common wart growths that occasionally appear on the buttocks or . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?