Lesson of the week: Perils of pessaries

Age and Ageing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 510-511

  Wheeler, Luke D ^a   Lazarus, Rajeka ^a   Torkington, Jared ^a   O'Mahony, M Sinead ^a   Woodhouse, Kenneth W ^a  

^a LLANDOUGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Elderly; Older women; Sepsis; Vaginal pessary

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG EMBOLISM; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; SEPTICEMIA; SHOCK; TACHYCARDIA; URINE CULTURE; VAGINA PESSARY; VAGINA SMEAR;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; PESSARIES; PROTEUS INFECTIONS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; SEPSIS; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

POMACANTHUS MACULOSUS;

EID: 4544377456     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afh170     Document Type: Article

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