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Article: New vulvar disease findings from N.A. Saunders and co-authors described.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- August 14, 2008
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"To determine whether patients referred for vulvar pain or candidiasis had different characteristics of pain as measured by the McGill Pain Scale or the number of McGill categories chosen. Data were collected at the University of Michigan Center for Vulvar Diseases between April 1998 and March 2003," researchers in the United States report (see also Vulvar Disease).
"The association between the McGill pain score and the number of patients who F McGill categories selected McGill with the diagnostic categories of vestibulodynia, generalized vulvodynia and chronic yeast infections were evaluated. A total of 196 women presented with vulvodynia (105 women with ...