Sexual function and pelvic floor disorders

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 993-1008

  Achtari, Chahin ^a   Dwyer, Peter L ^a  

^a MERCY HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pelvic organ prolapse; Sexual function; Urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

AGING; CYSTOCELE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; NEUROANATOMY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS FLOOR; PELVIS INJURY; PERINEUM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTOCELE; REVIEW; SATISFACTION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TENSION FREE VAGINAL TAPE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINAL VAULT PROLAPSE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; PELVIC FLOOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROLAPSE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UTERINE PROLAPSE; VAGINA;

EID: 29544432313     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2005.08.012     Document Type: Review

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