TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe pelvic examination as a screening tool
AU  - Stormo AR, Hawkins NA, Cooper C, Saraiya M
Y1  - 2011/12/12
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.575
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 2053
EP  - 2054
VL  - 171
IS  - 22
N2  - 
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 63.4 million pelvic examinations were performed in US physicians' offices and US clinics in 2008.1 Traditionally, this procedure has been performed in conjunction with annual Papanicolaou tests but since the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists extended its recommended cervical cancer screening interval to no more than every 3 years with human papillomavirus co-testing,2 there are questions about whether an annual pelvic examination is needed.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.575
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.575
ER  -