Fecundity and morbidity following acute pelvic inflammatory disease treated with doxycycline and metronidazole

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 268, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 284-288

  Heinonen, Pentti K ^a,b   Leinonen, Maarit ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chlamydial infection; Doxycycline; Fecundity; Laparoscopy; Metronidazole; Pelvic inflammatory disease

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; SALPINGITIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTEROIDES; BIOPSY; CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DOXYCYCLINE; ENDOMETRIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LAPAROSCOPY; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, TUBAL; RECURRENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0141533181     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-002-0376-6     Document Type: Article

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