STIs in women: Symptoms and examination

Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 226-230

  Welch, Jan ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bimanual examination; sexual history; sexually transmitted infections; speculum; symptoms; vaginal examination

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA; CHLAMYDIA; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSURIA; ECZEMA; FEMALE; FEMALE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; FOLLICULITIS; GENITAL HERPES; GENITAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; GONORRHEA; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENSTRUATION; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; NONHUMAN; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHTHIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; SCABIES; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VULVA; WART VIRUS;

EID: 77956624000     PISSN: 13573039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2010.01.013     Document Type: Review

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