Current practices in treatment of female genital fistula: A cross sectional study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Arrowsmith, Steven D ^a   Ruminjo, Joseph ^a,b   Landry, Evelyn G ^b  

^a EngenderHealth ^*  (United States)

^b Fistula Care Project   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL FISTULA; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; URINE INCONTINENCE; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYSTOVAGINAL FISTULA; METHODOLOGY; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; STATISTICS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ASIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY INCONTINENCE; VESICOVAGINAL FISTULA;

EID: 78149267615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-10-73     Document Type: Article

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