When recurrent genital sores are not genital herpes
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When recurrent genital sores are not genital herpes.
Case report A 32 year old married woman attended the genitourinary medicine clinic at Hertford County Hospital, requesting investigation for genital herpes. She previously had a normal delivery with an episiotomy in 1984. She complained of soreness in the vagina lasting 4–5 days every month for 3 years, ever since she had a total hysterectomy in March 1994. The symptoms usually started about th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.75.1.58