Pelvic inflammatory disease in adolescents

Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 86-97

  Wald, Ellen R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; MACROLIDE;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OVARY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; REVIEW;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OVARY; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE;

EID: 0030098834     PISSN: 15385442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0045-9380(96)80016-8     Document Type: Article

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