RT Book, Section
A1 Cohen, Craig R.
A2 Klausner, Jeffrey D.
A2 Hook, Edward W.
SR Print(0)
ID 3027306
T1 Chapter 8. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
YR 2007
FD 2007
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-145606-7
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3027306
RD 2024/04/16
AB •  No  set  of  signs  or  symptoms  is  pathognomonic  for  pelvic  inflammatory  disease  (PID),  and  most  laboratory  tests  are  nonspecific  for  its  diagnosis.•  Because  clinically  mild  and  subclinical  PID  causes  most  cases  of  postinfectious  tubal  factor  infertility,  ectopic  pregnancy,  and  chronic  pelvic  pain  due  to  pelvic  scarring  in  women,  a  low  threshold  should  be  used  to  make  the  diagnosis  of  PID.•  All  sexually  active  young  women  and  other  women  at  risk  for  sexually  transmitted  diseases  (STDs)  who  complain  of  acute  lower  abdominal  or  pelvic  pain;  demonstrate  uterine,  adnexal,  or  cervical  motion  tenderness  on  examination;  and  have  no  other  causes  for  these  symptoms,  should  be  diagnosed  and  treated  for  PID.