Lower genital tract infection and endometritis: Insight into subclinical pelvic inflammatory disease

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 456-463

  Wiesenfeld, Harold C ^a,c   Hillier, Sharon L ^a   Krohn, Marijane A ^a   Amortegui, Antonio J ^a   Heine, R Phillips ^a,b   Landers, Daniel V ^a   Sweet, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GONORRHEA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE; VAGINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VAGINAL SMEARS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0036710564     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(02)02118-X     Document Type: Article

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