A review on vulval pain syndromes

Reviews in Gynaecological Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 10-19

  Folch, Marina ^a   Nunns, David ^b  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dysaesthetic vulvodynia; Dyspareunia; Pain; Vulval vestibulitis

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CALCIUM; CAPSAICIN; CITRATE CALCIUM; DOSULEPIN; EMOLLIENT AGENT; ESTROGEN; GABAPENTIN; IMIPRAMINE; INTERFERON; KETOCONAZOLE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; LOFEPRAMINE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; NORTRIPTYLINE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; OXALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; STEROID; TOPICAL AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANAMNESIS; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; BURNING SENSATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC INFECTION; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; PAPILLOMATOSIS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SEDATION; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN IRRITATION; SOMNOLENCE; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VULVA DISEASE; VULVAR VESTIBULITIS; VULVITIS; VULVODYNIA; WART VIRUS; WEIGHT GAIN; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 3543096924     PISSN: 14717697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rigp.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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