Effect of counselling on the psychiatric morbidity associated with mastectomy

British Medical Journal

Volumn 281, Issue 6253, 1980, Pages 1454-1456

  Maguire, P ^a   Tait, A ^a   Brooke, M ^a   Thomas, C ^a   Sellwood, R ^a  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST; BREAST CARCINOMA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COUNSELING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASTECTOMY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0019159562     PISSN: 00071447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.281.6253.1454     Document Type: Article

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