ABDOMINAL-PAIN IN WOMEN ATTENDING A GENITOURINARY MEDICINE CLINIC - WHO HAS PID

Authors
STACEY CM MUNDAY PE
Citation
Cm. Stacey et Pe. Munday, ABDOMINAL-PAIN IN WOMEN ATTENDING A GENITOURINARY MEDICINE CLINIC - WHO HAS PID, International journal of STD & AIDS, 5(5), 1994, pp. 338-342
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Immunology,"Infectious Diseases
Journal title
International journal of STD & AIDS → ACNP
ISSN journal
09564624
Volume
5
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
338 - 342
Database
ISI
SICI code
0956-4624(1994)5:5<338:AIWAAG>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Eighty-one women who presented to a genitourinary medicine clinic with mild to moderate acute or chronic abdominal pain were studied in orde r to compare the clinical features of those who had pelvic inflammator y disease (PID) and those who did not. The diagnosis was made by lapar oscopy, and PID was detected in 14%, adhesions in 11% and endometriosi s in 16%. Women with PID were clinically indistinguishable from women with other diagnoses or no obvious cause.