VULVITIS CIRCUMSCRIPTA PLASMACELLULARIS (ZOONS VULVITIS) ASSOCIATED WITH AUTOIMMUNE POLYGLANDULAR ENDOCRINE FAILURE

Vulvitis circumscripta plasmacellularis (Zoon's vulvitis) is a distinc t clinicopathological entity which presents as a shiny, atrophic, eryt hematous plaque of the vulva. It is an idiopathic condition with chara cteristic clinical and histological findings that generally occur in i solation of other medical disorders. We report a 36-year-old woman wit h vulvitis circumscripta plasmacellularis associated with polyglandula r endocrine failure and circulating autoimmune antibodies. The associa tion between Zoon's vulvitis and these autoimmune conditions raises th e possibility that Zoon's vulvitis may be an autoimmune disorder.