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Genital tract abnormalities among female sex workers who douche with lemon/lime juice in Nigeria.

Vaginal douche products have been associated with cervical cancer. We examined female sex workers (FSWs) in Nigeria who douche with lemon or lime juice and compared the findings with that of nonusers. We obtained Pap smears and performed colposcopy of the vulva, vagina and cervix. A total of 374 FSWs comprising 81 Lemon users (LUs) and 293 non lemon users (NLUs) were examined. Their mean age was 27.8 +/- 6.7 (range 16-63) years. At colposcopy, 17 (4.5%) had genital warts [LUs 5 (6.2%); NLUs 12 (4.1%); p=0.43], 61 (16.3%) had suspected squamous intraepithelial lesions (SILs) [LUs 17 (21.0%); NL…

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Source	OpenAlex research
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	PubMed
Date	2009-03-01
Type	article
Details	openalex authorships.countries:NG,primary topic.subfield.id:3320\|3321\|3308\|1202\|3303\|3312\|2002\|2000\|2003 + local /\bnige
Found at	https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20687264
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Genital tract abnormalities among female sex workers who douche with lemon/lime juice in Nigeria.. OpenAlex research, 2009. Vero Archive, record openalex:W2127468514.