Surgical and behavioral treatments for vestibulodynia: Two-and-one-half- year follow-up and predictors of outcome

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 159-166

  Bergeron, Sophie ^a   Khalifé, Samir ^b   Glazer, Howard I ^b   Binik, Yitzchak M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EROTISM; EROTOPHOBIA; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEXUALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VESTIBULECTOMY; VESTIBULODYNIA; VULVAR VESTIBULITIS; VULVECTOMY; VULVODYNIA;

ADULT; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVA; VULVAR VESTIBULITIS;

EID: 37549061393     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000295864.76032.a7     Document Type: Article

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