Sexual functioning after treatment of in situ vulvar cancer: Preliminary report

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 15-19

  Andersen, Barbara L ^a   Turnquist, Dawn ^a   LaPolla, James ^a   Turner, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURGERY; VULVA CARCINOMA; VULVECTOMY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIBIDO; MIDDLE AGE; ORGASM; PATIENT EDUCATION; SEX BEHAVIOR; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VULVA; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0023839082     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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