Why do so many people drop out from auto-injection therapy for impotence?

Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 121-129

  Althof, Stanley E ^a   Turner, Louisa A ^a   Levine, Stephen B ^a   Risen, Candace ^a   Kursh, Elroy ^a   Bodner, Donald ^a   Resnick, Martin ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PAPAVERINE; PHENTOLAMINE;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; MALE; REGIONAL PERFUSION;

IMPOTENCE; MALE; PAPAVERINE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PHENTOLAMINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0024324913     PISSN: 0092623X     EISSN: 15210715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00926238908403816     Document Type: Article

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