Urinary and sexual dysfunction after rectal cancer treatment

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-57

  Lange, Marilyne M ^a   Van De Velde, Cornelis J H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; DYSPAREUNIA; EJACULATION DISORDER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; IMPOTENCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MORBIDITY; NERVE INJURY; NEUROANATOMY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PELVIC NERVE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VAGINAL DRYNESS;

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 78651352876     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2010.206     Document Type: Review

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