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Non-Obstetric Vaginal Trauma Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2013, 3, 21-23 OJOG http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojog.2013.31005 Published Online January 2013 (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojog/) Non-obstetric vaginal trauma Ian S. C. Jones1, Alan O’Connor2 1Medical Director, Women’s and Newborn Services, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2Medical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Email: [email protected] Received 2 October 2012; revised 5 November 2012; accepted 15 November 2012 ABSTRACT The present study sought to review the Emergency Department (ED) records of women presenting with non- Objective: To describe the mechanism, injury pattern obstetric vaginal trauma, determine the incidence, age and management of women who present to the Emer- distribution, site and type of injury, mechanism of injury gency Department with non-obstetric vaginal trauma. and whether acute urinary retention required treatment. Methods: A retrospective, single institution case se- ries was carried out. Data was sourced from medical records of women who presented to the Emergency 2. METHODS Department and Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hos- The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital is a 900 plus pital between 2007 and 2011. Records of possible in- bed tertiary hospital based at Herston. The Emergency juries to the vagina were assessed to determine inci- Department (ED) sees 74,000 adult patients per year in- dence, age, site, type of injury, mechanism of injury cluding all those patients requesting assessment follow- and whether urinary retention required treatment. ing alleged sexual assault. The hospital Emergency De- Results: Vaginal non-obstetric trauma was found in partment Information System (EDIS) records of women 11 of 519 cases resulting in lacerations or tears. Inju- who presented to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hos- ries were due to consensual coitus, other forms of pital Emergency Department for the five years between sexual activity and self harm. Acute urinary retention 2007 and 2011 with possible injuries to the vulva and did not occur in any case but two cases required re- vagina were assessed. All such patients would present suscitation. Site of injury was most common high in and be admitted through the ED. The search of EDIS the vagina. Conclusion: Non-obstetric vaginal injuries listed all initial female ED presentations with ICD 10 are uncommon (incidence 2.1%). All cases require as- codes S31.4, T74.2, T19.2 and 9039 during the time pe- sessment for vulvar, vaginal, urethral, anal and bony riod 2007 to 2011. For those cases where physical injury pelvis injuries. This may require examination under to the vagina was documented in the Emergency De- anaesthesia. Social worker and psychological support partment records the hospital admission records were is important to reduce the incidence of long-term psy- then reviewed in detail to determine the age distribution, chological problems. site and type of injury, mechanism of injury, whether urinary retention required treatment and the type of Keywords: Non-Obstetric; Vaginal; Trauma; Diagnosis; wound treatment given. This information (age distribu- Management tion, site and mechanism of injury and type of wound treatment given) was reviewed and analysed manually. 1. INTRODUCTION Ethics approval for the review of case records was ob- tained from the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of Direct vaginal trauma is an uncommon injury, but one the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. which can have significant short and long term physical and psychological consequences [1]. Compared to ob- 3. RESULTS stetric causes of vaginal trauma non-obstetric trauma is very uncommon. In most cases it is caused by direct There were 519 cases of women presenting with condi- blunt trauma to an area containing a rich vascular net- tions where there was a mechanism that raised the possi- work. Types of trauma reported by others include vigor- bility of a non-obstetric vulvo-vaginal injury. Eleven ous consensual and non-consensual coital injury, physi- cases (2.1%) were discovered to have vaginal tears. Each cal assault [2,3] and genital self mutilation [4,5]. of these cases required admission for assessment and OPEN ACCESS 22 I. S. C. Jones, A. O’Connor / Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 3 (2013) 21-23 management. Of the 519 cases 362 (70%) presented be- the 11 cases had associated non-genital injuries. cause of alleged sexual abuse or alleged rape and 82 oth- ers presented for removal of vaginal foreign bodies 4. DISCUSSION (16%). Bleeding due to lower genital tract infection was This study confirms that non-obstetric vaginal injuries present in 51 cases and 13 patients did not wait for as- are uncommon. Such injuries usually result from coitus sessment. The description of the injury was made by the which is in agreement with others [6]. Sloin, Karimian ED registrar or the gynaecology registrar. Patient ages and Ilbeigi (2006) suggested predisposing factors that ranged from 20 to 40 years and all had had previous co- ital experience. The mechanism of injury was consensual may result in such injuries include virginity, dispropor- coitus (seven cases), self harm with foreign bodies (two tion of male and female genitalia, atrophic vagina in cases) and from fisting and inserting a foreign body (one postmenopausal women, friability of tissues, stenosis and each). One case of self harm had been admitted on four scarring of the vagina because of congenital abnor- separate occasions with vaginal foreign bodies between malities, previous surgery, or pelvic radiation therapy. 2004 and 2011 and on four other occasions with foreign Other factors suggested by them included rough and bodies in the rectum which on one occasion required a violent thrusting of the penis during intercourse, inser- laparotomy to remove the object from the colon. There tion of foreign bodies, and sexual assault [7]. Self mutila- were no cases of acute urinary retention. The extent of tion occurred in two of our cases with each case having a the injuries ranged in size from 1 to 5 cm (Table 1). long history of sexual abuse, findings which are in agree- Treatments were described as conservative or surgical. ment with others [4,5]. Non-coital vaginal injuries may Conservative treatment was admission and observation result from pelvic fractures and blunt or penetrating only and surgical treatment included Examination Under abdominal trauma [7], however this study did not en- Anaesthesia (EUA), suturing wounds under general an- counter any such injuries. aesthesia in an operating theatre, laparoscopy to check In the current series the anatomical locations for inju- for organ damage and laparoscopic removal of a foreign ries were in the posterior fornix or lateral vaginal walls. body and drainage of an infected intra-abdominal haema- In our series five cases of consensual coitus resulted in toma. Two patients required a blood transfusion and an- such an injury. other who had the infected intra-abdominal haematoma Diagnosis would appear to be straightforward but does drained laparoscopically received antibiotics. None of require a vaginal speculum examination. The extent of Table 1. Non obstetric vaginal trauma. Unit record number/year Mechanism of Site of vaginal Size of injury Age Injury Surgical treatment/sutures of presentation injury/parity injury cm/shock Posterior 1917052/2011 23 Coitus/0 Tear 3/nil Surgical/5 sutures fornix Tear—14 cm pencil Laparoscopy Self harm—Mental Posterior 1139266/2008 31 into vagina entered 1/nil Infected haematoma drained illness/0 fornix peritoneum No vaginal sutures Posterior 1922644/2010 27 Coitus/0 Tear 5/nil Sutured vault tear/laparoscopy fornix Fisting on asprin for Bilateral Two wounds—4 & 1947197/2010 39 Tears Multiple sutures SVT/4 vagina 5 cm/shocked Conservative/admitted for B947667/2010 40 Coitus/2 Tear/JW Left fornix 1/nil observation only Self harm glass & razor Posterior 1166020/2011 40 tear 2/nil EUA & sutures blades insertion/3 fornix Transfused 2 units packed 1356370/2010 28 Coital/3 tear Left lateral 5/yes EBL 1.5 L cells/EUA/sutures Posterior 1900866/2010 20 Coital/0 tear 2/nil EUA/sutures fornix Posterior 1917464/2010 24 Coital/2 tear 4/nil EUA/sutures vagina Lateral 1922962/2010 27 Coital/ 0 tear 3/nil EUA/ sutures vagina Consensual insertion Right vaginal 1878266/2009 25 laceration 4/nil EUA/ sutures of FB/0 wall Copyright © 2013 SciRes. OPEN ACCESS I. S. C. Jones, A. O’Connor / Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 3 (2013) 21-23 23 the injury may be missed by not performing an adequate size of the wound determined whether suturing was re- clinical assessment because of pain or because of a large quired. blood clot partly obscuring the injury, hence EUA is recommended in such cases. It is important to recognise 6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that some injuries to the upper vagina enter the peritoneal We thank all the staff in the Emergency Department, Royal Brisbane cavity and may injure bowel, bladder or the posterior and Women’s Hospital for providing care for the women in this study wall of the uterus. The use of such terms as tear and lac- and Jadwiga Chabrowska for searching EDIS for the cases in the study. eration appears to be imprecise with the extent of the injury more reliably being described by length measure- ments in centimetres (Table 1). 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