Assessing sexual function in obese women preparing for bariatric surgery

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1087-1091

  Assimakopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Panayiotopoulos, Spiros ^a   Iconomou, Gregoris ^a   Karaivazoglou, Katerina ^a   Matzaroglou, Charalambos ^a   Vagenas, Konstantinos ^a   Kalfarentzos, Fotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; FSFI; Morbid obesity; Sexual dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LUBRICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; OBESITY; ORGASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY, MORBID; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33747148902     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/096089206778026442     Document Type: Review

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