Using lubricant for speculum insertion

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 415-417

  Harmanli, O ^a   Jones, Keisha A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; HOT WATER; LUBRICATING AGENT;

CANCER MORTALITY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA PROBE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUBRICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NOTE; PAIN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; VAGINA; VAGINA SECRETION;

CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUBRICANTS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; VAGINA; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 77955155608     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181e750f1     Document Type: Editorial

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