Morphology and physiological changes of genital skin and mucosa

Current Problems in Dermatology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2011, Pages 9-19

  Farage, Miranda A ^a   Maibach, Howard I ^b  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADRENARCHE; AGING; ANDROGEN RELEASE; ARTICLE; BLOATING; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; BREAST TENDERNESS; DELIVERY; ECTODERM; ENDODERM; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INCONTINENCE; INFANCY; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MESODERM; MIGRAINE; MORPHOLOGY; PERINEUM DERMATITIS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBARCHE; PUBERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VAGINA; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINA MUCOSA; VAGINA SKIN; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VULVA; VULVA DERMATITIS; VULVA SKIN; VULVOVAGINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; CHILD; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PREGNANCY; PUBERTY; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 79951700547     PISSN: 14215721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000321042     Document Type: Article

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