Publisher's Synopsis
This is a pocket guide to the right way to prepare physiologic saline and potassium-hydroxide wet mounts of vaginal secretions, and on how to interpret them correctly for the differential diagnosis of vaginitis or discharge.;The book gives the criteria for making a diagnosis "within normal limits", for non-diagnostic wet-mount preparations, and for making diagnoses of mild-moderate-severe inflammation, trichomoniasis, candidiasis versus yeast, vaginal bacteriosis, de-squamative vaginitis and lactobacilli overgrowth. The final chapter covers evaluation of a patient with vulvovaginitis of infectious aetiology.
