Sexual functions and depressive symptoms after photodynamic therapy for vulvar lichen sclerosus in postmenopausal women from the upper Silesian region of Poland

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3395-3400

  Skrzypulec, Violetta ^a   Olejek, Anita ^a   Drosdzol, Agnieszka ^a   Nowosielski, Krzysztof ^a   Kozak Darmas, Iwona ^a   Wloch, Stanislaw ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Depressive Symptoms; Photodynamic Therapy; Sexual Functions; Sexuality; Vulvar Lichen Sclerosus; Vulvar Pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; LUBRICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; POLAND; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOTHERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENTIAL CARE;

AGED; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOTHERAPY; POLAND; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VULVAR LICHEN SCLEROSUS;

EID: 77950914829     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2009.01505.x     Document Type: Article

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