A randomized comparative study of the effects of oral and topical estrogen therapy on the vaginal vascularization and sexual function in hysterectomized postmenopausal women

Menopause

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 737-743

  Long, Cheng Yu ^a,b   Liu, Cheng Min ^a   Hsu, Shih Cheng ^a,c   Wu, Chin Hu ^c   Wang, Chiu Lin ^b   Tsai, Eing Mei ^a,b,c  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MUNICIPAL HSIAO KANG HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Estrogen; Menopause; Sexual function

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN;

ADULT; ANORGASMIA; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSPAREUNIA; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERVIEW; LIBIDO DISORDER; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SYMPTOM; URINALYSIS; VAGINAL DRYNESS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VAGINA;

EID: 33748951949     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gme.0000227401.98933.0b     Document Type: Article

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