Vulvar vestibulitis: Physical or psychosexual problem?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 93, Issue 5 SUPPL., 1999, Pages 876-880

  Bornstein, Jacob ^a   Zarfati, Doron ^a   Goldik, Zeev ^a   Abramovici, Haim ^a  

^a CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC PAIN; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; REVIEW; SOMATIZATION; STRESS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR VESTIBULITIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVITIS;

EID: 0032917530     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(98)00535-3     Document Type: Review

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