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Australia

• Australian Family Physician
  • Localised provoked vestibulodynia (vulvodynia): assessment and management [2015]

Austria, Germany, Switzerland

• JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft
  • Evidence- and consensus-based guideline on lichen sclerosus [2026]

Canada

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Vulvar punch biopsy for evaluating vulvar dermatoses in primary care [2026]

Europe

• European Dermatology Forum
  • EuroGuiderm guideline on lichen sclerosus-introduction into lichen sclerosus [2024]
  • EuroGuiderm guideline on lichen sclerosus-Treatment of lichen sclerosus [2024]

• International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • 2021 European guideline for the management of vulval conditions [2021]

• Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
  • Evidence-based (S3) Guideline on (anogenital) Lichen sclerosus [2015]

Germany

• JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft
  • Update vulval dermatology - diagnostics and therapy [2025]

High-income countries

• Women's Health
  • A scoping review of vulvodynia research: Diagnosis, treatment, and care experiences [2025]

International

• British Journal of Dermatology
  • Diagnostic criteria for erosive lichen planus affecting the vulva: an international electronic-Delphi consensus exercise [2013]

• Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
  • A systematic review of the barriers to diagnosis of vulval lichen sclerosus in primary care [2026]
  • Expert opinion on characteristics of vulval lichen sclerosus: initial identification of important clinical features through an international electronic Delphi consensus study [2025]

• International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease
  • Descriptors of Vulvodynia: A Multisocietal Definition Consensus (International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease, the International Society for the Study of Women Sexual Health, and the International Pelvic Pain Society) [2019]
  • 2015 ISSVD, ISSWSH, and IPPS Consensus Terminology and Classification of Persistent Vulvar Pain and Vulvodynia [2016]

• Journal of Dermatological Treatment
  • Comparison of long-term efficacy and safety of different therapeutic approaches for vulvar Lichen sclerosus: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2026]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Clinical Update Adult Vulval Lichen Sclerosus [2025]

Sweden

• Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
  • Development of a core outcome set for treatment studies for provoked vestibulodynia [2024]
  • Treatment of Provoked Vulvodynia: A Systematic Review [2022]
  • Diagnostics and treatment of provoked vestibulodynia [2021]

United Kingdom

• British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
  • 2024 British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) UK national guideline on the management of vulval conditions [2025]

• British Association of Dermatologists
  • British Association of Dermatologists guidelines for the management of lichen sclerosus, 2018 [2018]

• British Journal of General Practice
  • Vulval lichen sclerosus in primary care: thinking beyond thrush and genitourinary symptoms of the menopause [2023]

• British Society for the Study of Vulval Disease
  • Standards of Care for Patients with Vulval Conditions [2022]
  • BSSVD Position Statement

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Balloon catheter insertion for Bartholin's cyst or abscess [2009]

• Primary Care Dermatology Society
  • Bartholin’s cysts

United States

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Persistent Vulvar Pain [2016]

• American Family Physician
  • Common Benign Chronic Vulvar Disorders [2020]

• American Journal of Clinical Dermatology
  • Scratching the Surface: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Managing Vulvovaginal Itching [2025]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Vulvodynia

{Related topics}

• Topic
  • Vulvitis, vaginitis
  • Vulvar cancer
  • Gynecologic surgery