Itch and burning pain in women with partial vaginismus with or without vulvar vestibulitis

Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 171-186

  Engman, Maria ^a,b   Wijma, Klaas ^a   Wijma, Barbro ^a,c  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Vastervik Hospital   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PAIN; PRURITUS; SKIN SENSATION; VAGINISM; VULVAR VESTIBULITIS;

ADULT; COITUS; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PRURITUS VULVAE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VAGINA; VAGINISMUS; VULVA; VULVITIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33847008280     PISSN: 0092623X     EISSN: 15210715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00926230601098506     Document Type: Article

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