Managing Vulvar Vestibulitis

Nurse Practitioner

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 24-31

  Driver, Katherine A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HUMAN; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING EDUCATION; REVIEW; VULVOVAGINITIS;

EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; VULVOVAGINITIS;

EID: 0036631560     PISSN: 03611817     EISSN: 15388662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006205-200207000-00005     Document Type: Article

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