A Controlled Trial of Intravaginal Estriol in Postmenopausal Women with Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 329, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 753-756

  Raz, Raul ^a   Stamm, Walter E ^b  

^a HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRIOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; IRRITANT DERMATITIS; LACTOBACILLUS; PH MEASUREMENT; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RECURRENT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINA FLORA;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESTRIOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGE; OINTMENTS; RECURRENCE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VAGINA;

EID: 0027296111     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199309093291102     Document Type: Article

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