Genital sympathetic skin responses in fibromyalgia syndrome

Rheumatology International

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1025-1030

  Ünlü, Ece ^a   Ulaş, Ümit Hidir ^b   Gürçay, Eda ^a   Tuncay, Reyhan ^a   Berber, Sezai ^a   Çakçi, Aytül ^a   Odabaşi, Zeki ^b  

^a Social Security Hospital   (Turkey)

^b GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33748681120     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-006-0131-6     Document Type: Article

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