Victims of military sexual trauma - You see them, too

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 120-125

  Baltrushes, Nicole ^a   Karnik, Niranjan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALLERGY; ARMY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INDIGESTION; IRRITABLE COLON; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; ODYNOPHAGIA; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SEXUAL ASSAULT; SINUS CONGESTION; SMOKING; SUICIDAL IDEATION; VICTIM; VISUAL DISORDER; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANAMNESIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; RAPE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; VETERANS HEALTH;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PSYCHOLOGY, MILITARY; RAPE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; VETERANS HEALTH;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878227008     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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