The prevalence of abnormal genital findings, vulvovaginitis, enuresis and encopresis in children who present with allegations of sexual abuse

Journal of Pediatric Urology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1216-1221

  Anderson, B ^a   Thimmesch, I ^b   Aardsma, N ^a   Ed D, M Terrell ^a   Carstater, S ^c   Schober, J ^c,d  

^a LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WOMACK ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HAMOT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child abuse; Elimination disorders; Enuresis; Pediatrics; Sexual; Vaginitis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAL INTERCOURSE; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COITUS; CONSTIPATION; ENURESIS; ERYTHEMA; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA INFECTION; HEMATURIA; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HYMEN; INFANT; LACERATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MUSCLE TONE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; ORAL SEX; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROCTITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN BRUISING; URINALYSIS; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINITIS; VENOUS CONGESTION; VULVOVAGINITIS; COMORBIDITY; ENCOPRESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; ENCOPRESIS; ENURESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; VULVOVAGINITIS;

EID: 84917726909     PISSN: 14775131     EISSN: 18734898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpurol.2014.06.011     Document Type: Article

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