Pharmacological treatment of premature ejaculation

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 553-561

  McMahon, Chris G ^a   Samali, Ramin ^b  

^a Australian Centre for Sexual Health   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; LIDOCAINE; PAROXETINE; PRILOCAINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGITATION; ANXIETY; DROWSINESS; DRUG INDUSTRY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LIBIDO; MALE; NAUSEA; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PRIAPISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; TREMOR; VISUAL DISORDER; XEROSTOMIA;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CLOMIPRAMINE; EJACULATION; FLUOXETINE; HUMANS; MALE; PAROXETINE; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SERTRALINE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033400179     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042307-199911000-00011     Document Type: Review

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