Vaginal speculum lubrication and its effects on cervical cytology and microbiology

Contraception

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 60-64

  Griffith, William F ^a   Stuart, Gretchen S ^a   Gluck, Karen L ^a   Heartwell, Stephen F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cytology; Cervical N. gonorrhoeae and C. trachomatis; Lubricated vaginal speculum

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIOSTASIS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA PROBE; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; GEL; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LUBRICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINA SPECULUM;

ADULT; CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUBRICATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 20444441603     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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