Sexual dysfunction among women with connective tissue disease

Current Rheumatology Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 126-132

  Anderson, Erica ^a   Triplett, Leah M ^a   Nietert, Paul J ^a   Brown, Alan N ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPAREUNIA; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION INDEX; HUMAN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 71849110677     PISSN: 15733971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339709788298446     Document Type: Review

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