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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

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  1. American Academy of Pediatrics (2003). Pelvic inflammatory disease. In LK Pickering, ed., Red Book: 2003 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, 26th ed., pp. 468–472. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics.

  2. Soper DE, Mead PB (2005). Infections of the female pelvis. In GL Mandell et al., eds., Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 6th ed., pp. 1372–1381. Philadelphia: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.

  3. Golden MR (2003). Vaginitis and sexually transmitted diseases. In DC Dale, DD Federman, eds., Scientific American Medicine, vol. 2, part 7, chap. 22. New York: WebMD.

  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2006). Pelvic inflammatory disease section of Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2006. MMWR, 55(RR-11): 56–61.

  5. Ness RB, et al. (2004). Condom use and the risk of recurrent pelvic inflammatory disease, chronic pelvic pain, or infertility following an episode of pelvic inflammatory disease. American Journal of Public Health, 94(8): 1327–1329.

  6. Howard FM (2003). Chronic pelvic pain. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 101(3): 594–611.

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Last Updated: November 28, 2006
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