Does a water-based lubricant affect pap smear and cervical microbiology results?

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 376-377

  Pawlik, Michal ^a   Martin, Frank J ^b  

^a Practises Family Medicine

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NOTE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINA;

ADULT; CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUBRICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; VAGINAL SMEARS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66749155950     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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