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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Definition
Common names:
  • Female Pelvic Infection
  • Female VD
  • Pelvic Infection Female
  • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
  • PID
  • Salpingitis
  • VD in Women
  • Venereal Disease in Women
A woman with pelvic inflammatory disease has an infection of the female reproductive organs in the pelvis. Images

Pelvic inflammatory disease is usually caused by a sexually transmitted disease, such as a gonorrhea or chlamydia infection.

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Last Updated: Sep 11, 2008  References
Authors: Stephen J. Schueler, MD; John H. Beckett, MD; D. Scott Gettings, MD
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