Restless genital syndrome before and after clitoridectomy for spontaneous orgasms: A case Report

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1029-1034

  Waldinger, Marcel D ^a,b   Venema, Pieter L ^a   van Gils, Ad P G ^a   Schutter, Eltjo M J ^c   Schweitzer, Dave H ^d  

^a LEYENBURG HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d REINIER DE GRAAF HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CLITORIS; DYSESTHESIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGASM; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PARESTHESIA; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS GENITAL SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HYPERESTHESIA; INNERVATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUBIC BONE; SENSATION DISORDERS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNDROME; TIME;

AGED; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; CLITORIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERESTHESIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUBIC BONE; SENSATION DISORDERS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 75649125292     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2009.01571.x     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Leiblum SR, Nathan SG. Persistent sexual arousal syndrome: A newly discovered pattern of female sexuality. J Sex Marital Ther 2001, 27:365-80.
2. Goldmeier D, Leiblum SR. Persistent genital arousal in women-A new syndrome entity. Int J STD AIDS 2006, 17:215-6.
3. Waldinger MD, van Gils APG, Ottervanger HP, Vandenbroucke WVA, Tavy DLJ. Persistent genital arousal disorder in 18 Dutch women: Part 1. MRI, EEG and transvaginal ultrasonography investigations. J Sex Med 2009, 6:474-81.
4. Waldinger MD, Schweitzer DH. Persistent genital arousal disorder in 18 Dutch women: Part II. A syndrome clustered with restless legs and overactive bladder. J Sex Med 2009, 6:482-97.
5. Waldinger MD, Venema PL, van Gils APG, Schweitzer DH. New insights into restless genital syndrome: Static mechanical hyperesthesia and neuropathy of the nervus dorsalis clitoridis. J Sex Med 2009, 6:2778-87.
6. Schmidt A, Lang U, Kiess W. Epidermal cyst of the clitoris: A rare clitorimegaly. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 1999, 87:163-5.
7. Teague JL, Anglo L. Clitoral cyst: An unusual cause of clitorimegaly. J Urol 1996, 156:2057.
8. Rouzi AA, Sindi O, Radhan B, Ba'ageel H. Epidermal clitoral inclusion cyst after type I female genital mutilation. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2001, 185:569-71.
9. Yoong WC, Shakya R, Sanders BT, Lind J. Clitoral inclusion cyst: A complication of type I female genital mutilation. J Obstet Gynaecol 2004, 24:98-9.
10. Polydefkis M, Allen RP, Hauer P, Earley CJ, Griffin JW, McArthur JC. Subclinical sensory neuropathy in late-onset restless legs syndrome. Neurology 2000, 55:1115-21.
11. Gemignani F, Brindani F, Vitetta F, Marbini A, Calzetti S. Restless legs syndrome in diabetic neuropathy: A frequent manifestation of small fiber neuropathy. J Peripher Nerv Syst 2007, 12:50-3.
12. Trenkwalder C, Paulus W. Why do restless legs occur at rest? Pathophysiology of neuronal structures in RLS. Neurophysiology of RLS (part 2). Clin Neurophysiol 2004, 115:1975-88.
13. Clemens S, Rye D, Hochman S. Restless legs syndrome. Revisiting the dopamine hypothesis from the spinal cord perspective. Neurology 2006, 67:125-30.
14. Korda JB, Pfaus JG, Goldstein I. Persistent genital arousal disorder: A case report in a woman with lifelong PGAD where serendipitous administration of varenicline tartrate resulted in symptomatic improvement. J Sex Med 2009, 6:1479-86.