Evaluation of vaginal infections in adolescent women: Can it be done without a speculum?

Pediatrics

Volumn 102, Issue 4 I, 1998, Pages 939-944

  Blake, Diane Ruth ^a,b   Duggan, Anne ^a   Quinn, Thomas ^a   Zenilman, Jonathan ^a   Joffe, Alain ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Noninvasive testing; Screening; Sexually transmitted diseases; Vaginitis; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRICHOMONIASIS; URINALYSIS; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; ADULT; ANIMALS; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; VAGINA; VAGINAL SMEARS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0031710570     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.102.4.939     Document Type: Article

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