Testosterone patch for low sexual desire in surgically menopausal women: a randomized trial

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 944-952

  Buster, John E ^a   Kingsberg, Sheryl A ^a   Buch, Akshay ^a   Rodenberg, Cynthia A ^a   Wekselman, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PLACEBO; TESTOSTERONE;

ACNE; ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFECTION; LARYNX DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VERTIGO;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADULT; AGED; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LIBIDO; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17644377222     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000158103.27672.0d     Document Type: Article

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