Cytomegalovirus proctitis: A rare and disregarded sexually transmitted disease

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 876-878

  Studemeister, Alex ^a,b  

^a SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANILINGUS; ANOREXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS PROCTITIS; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOOSE FECES; LYMPHOCYTE; MALAISE; MALE; MELENA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PROCTITIS; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TENESMUS; ULCER;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROCTITIS; RECTUM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051785914     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31821a5a90     Document Type: Review

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