Self-reported vulvar pain characteristics and their association with clinically confirmed vestibulodynia

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1333-1339

  Harlow, Bernard L ^a   Vazquez, Gabriela ^a   MacLehose, Richard F ^a   Erickson, Darin J ^a   Oakes, J Michael ^a   Duval, Susan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TAMPON; VULVA DISEASE; VULVAR VESTIBULITIS;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PELVIC PAIN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; VULVAR DISEASES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349215036     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2008.1032     Document Type: Article

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