Abdominal Pain in Women Attending a Genitourinary Medicine Clinic: Who Has PID?

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This study compared women with abdominal pain at a clinic and found that clinical features did not distinguish those with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) from other diagnoses.

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Eighty-one women who presented to a genitourinary medicine clinic with mild to moderate acute or chronic abdominal pain were studied in order to compare the clinical features of those who had pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and those who did not. The diagnosis was made by laparoscopy, and PID was detected in 14%, adhesions in 11% and endometriosis in 16%. Women with PID were clinically indistinguishable from women with other diagnoses or no obvious cause.

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Abdominal Pain Abdominal Pain Mass Screening Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Population Surveillance Abdominal Pain Abdominal Pain Abdominal Pain Acute Disease Chronic Disease Diagnosis, Differential Female Humans Laparoscopy Mass Screening Outpatient Clinics, Hospital Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

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