Introducing colposcopy and vulvovaginoscopy as routine examinations for victims of sexual assault.

Victims of sexual assault require appropriate care, follow-up and information regarding their legal rights. Clinicians are faced with the challenging responsibility of identifying victims and providing effective interventive and preventive counselling. The most pressing medical task is to confirm the assault and to undertake correct documentation and exhibition of biological traces.

[Contraception in teenagers. Medico legal implication].

Contraception in adolescence is an issue which, due to its clinical and medico-legal implications, requires an in depth and clear knowledge of the general principles that govern contraception in minors, as stated in a broad body of laws. The position of the physician is complex, since he/she must comply with the law whilst protecting the minor. The physician has to provide answers to many questions: Can health care facilities and guidance centers administer to the minor, by medical prescription, the means necessary for her to make free choices in the area of responsible procreation without parental authorization? How must the gynecologist go about prescribing the morning after pill ? Emergency contraception, that is the morning after pill , has proven to be extremely helpful for adolescents whose physical and psychic health could be undermined by an unwanted pregnancy, so that it is the physicians duty to protect it.

[CIN: multicentric study of therapeutic strategies].

Background: Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia (CIN) is a dysplastic lesion that precedes cervical cancer. The diagnosis is made by colposcopic, cytologic and bioptic exams. Therapy may be physical, pharmacological or surgical.