Dorothy L. Patton

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
review 2011
Infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1155/2011/675360

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a global health concern that is associated with significant morbidity and is a major cause of infertility. Throughout history animals have been used for anatomical studies and later as models of human di…

lab-animal 2011
The Journal of infectious diseases ·doi:10.1093/infdis/jir541

BACKGROUND: The baboon (Papio hamadryas anubis) can be transcervically instrumented, facilitating studies of intrauterine contraception and reproductive tract infection. We sought to determine if the baboon could become infected with a sing…

observational 1989
Obstetrics & Gynecology

We examined two groups of infertile women who underwent microsurgical repair of their fallopian tube(s) for distal tubal obstruction, one with a history of salpingitis (overt pelvic inflammatory disease) (N = 34) and one without (silent pel…