Sexual activities and attitudes of women with vulvar dysesthesia

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 325-331

  Reed, Barbara D ^a,b   Advincula, Arnold P ^a   Fonde, Karen R ^a   Gorenflo, Daniel W ^a   Haefner, Hope K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSESTHESIA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTURBATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGASM; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VULVA DISEASE; VULVODYNIA;

EID: 0041695876     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(03)00571-4     Document Type: Article

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