Does a water-based lubricant affect Pap smear and cervical microbiology results?

Can Fam Physician. 2009 Apr;55(4):376-7.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cervix Uteri / cytology*
  • Cervix Uteri / microbiology*
  • Chlamydia trachomatis / isolation & purification
  • Confidence Intervals
  • DNA Probes
  • DNA, Bacterial / analysis
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lubrication*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae / isolation & purification
  • Odds Ratio
  • Papanicolaou Test*
  • Probability
  • Reference Values
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases / diagnosis
  • Single-Blind Method
  • Vaginal Smears / methods*
  • Vaginosis, Bacterial / diagnosis*
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • DNA Probes
  • DNA, Bacterial