Women with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Sexual Dysfunction: Past, Present, and Future

Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 347-359

  Blazquez, Alicia ^a   Alegre, José ^b   Ruiz, Eva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LIBIDO; LIBIDO DISORDER; MYALGIA; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALITY; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70449640550     PISSN: 0092623X     EISSN: 15210715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00926230903065179     Document Type: Review

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