New insights into restless genital syndrome: Static mechanical hyperesthesia and neuropathy of the nervus dorsalis clitoridis

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2778-2787

  Waldinger, Marcel D ^a,b   Venema, Pieter L ^a   van Gils, Ad P G ^a   Schweitzer, Dave H ^c  

^a LEYENBURG HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c REINIER DE GRAAF HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dorsal nerve of the clitoris; OAB; Persistent sexual arousal syndrome; PGAD; Pudendal nerve; ReGS; RLS; SFN

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DORSAL NERVE OF CLITORIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL TACTILE MAPPING TEST; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERESTHESIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; RESTLESS GENITAL SYNDROME; SENSORY EVALUATION; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SEXUAL AROUSAL DISORDER; SPINAL NERVE; VARICOSIS; AGED; AROUSAL; CLITORIS; COMPLICATION; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ORGASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VAGINA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; CLITORIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERESTHESIA; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ORGASM; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VAGINA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 70649103258     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2009.01435.x     Document Type: Article

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