Factors influencing sexual function in patients with rectal cancer

International Journal of Impotence Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 231-238

  Schmidt, C E ^a,b   Bestmann, B ^a   Kuchler T ^a   Kremer, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Gender; Quality of life; Rectal cancer; Sexual function; Type of surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COLON POUCH; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUALITY; SIGMOIDECTOMY;

AGED; COLON, SIGMOID; COLONIC POUCHES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 18744369324     PISSN: 09559930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijir.3901276     Document Type: Article

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