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Many instances of vaginitis are of a non-infective nature and result from trauma, surgery, foreign bodies, irradiation, chemical irritants, ill-fitting pessaries or prolapse (Figure 5.1). In most such cases the histological appearances are quite non-specific but post-irradiation vaginitis is characterized by a plasma cell infiltrate, obliterative endarteritis, atypia of stromal fibroblasts and hyalinization of stromal collagen.
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Fox, H., Buckley, C.H. (1983). Vagina: Non-Neoplastic Conditions. In: Atlas of Gynaecological Pathology. Current Histopathology, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7312-2_5
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