Laboratory evaluation of acute upper genital tract infection

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 730-736

  Peipert, Jeffrey F ^a,b   Boardman, Lori ^a,b   Hogan, Joseph W ^a,b   Sung, James ^a,b   Mayer, Kenneth H ^a,b  

^a Women amp Infants' Hospital   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGITIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERUS BLEEDING;

EID: 0342832991     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0029-7844(96)00040-3     Document Type: Article

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