Is localized, provoked vulvodynia an inflammatory condition?

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 379-384

  Eva, Lois J ^a   Rolfe, Kerstin J ^a   MacLean, Allan B ^a   Reid, Wendy M N ^a   Fong, Anne Christine Wong Te ^a   Crow, Julie ^a   Perrett, Christopher W ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Vestibule; Vulvar diseases; Vulvodynia

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VULVODYNIA;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKIN-1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; PAIN; PILOT PROJECTS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VULVAR DISEASES;

EID: 34249032374     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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