A brief review of the factors influencing sexuality after hysterectomy

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-14

  Meston, Cindy M ^a   Bradford, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; DYSPAREUNIA; EDITORIAL; ESTROGEN THERAPY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MENORRHAGIA; ORGASM DISORDER; OVARIECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE DEPRESSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINAL DRYNESS;

EID: 0842307221     PISSN: 14681994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14681990410001640790     Document Type: Editorial

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