Sexual dysfunction in perimenopause: A review

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 624-631

  Novi, Joseph M ^a   Book, Nicole M ^a  

^a RIVERSIDE METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; ESTROGEN; NEFAZODONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SILDENAFIL; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ARTHRITIS; BATH; BURNING SENSATION; CLIMACTERIUM; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLITORIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPAREUNIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEISURE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; ORGASM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SEXUALITY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SOCIAL CHANGE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPOTTING; STROKE; THYROID DISEASE; TOUCH; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS PROLAPSE; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VAGINAL LAVAGE; VAGINISM; VAGINITIS; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER;

FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; PERIMENOPAUSE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70350704833     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: 15339866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OGX.0b013e3181b2f273     Document Type: Review

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