Impairment of sexual life in patients with psoriasis

Dermatology

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 144-150

  Sampogna, Francesca ^a   Gisondi, Paolo ^b   Tabolli, Stefano ^a   Abeni, Damiano ^a   Alotto, Massimo ^c   Antonelli, Gianluca ^c   Bolli, Simone ^c   Chinni, Massimo Luca ^c   Fazio, Marcello ^c   Girolomoni, Giampiero ^c   Luchetti, Elisabetta ^c   Mazzotti, Eva ^c   Melchi, Carmelo Franco ^c   Salcedo, Nidia Melo ^c   Moscatelli, Paola ^c   Pasquini, Paolo ^c   Piazza, Paolo ^c   Picardi, Angelo ^c   Picconi, Orietta ^c   Pilla, Maria Antonietta ^c   Primavera, Grazia ^c   Puddu, Pietro ^c   Ruatti, Paolo ^c   Ruggiero, Giuseppe ^c   Salvatori, Valentina ^c   Sera, Francesco ^c   Sordi, Donatella ^c   Tiago, Albertina ^c   more..

^a LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata ^*

Author keywords

Depression; Psoriasis; Quality of life; Sexual life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOLOGY; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSORIASIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

ADULT; AGED; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREVALENCE; PSORIASIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33847709065     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098574     Document Type: Article

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