Characteristics of the pain observed in the focal vulvodynia syndrome (VVS)

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-14

  Donders, Gilbert ^a,b,c   Bellen, Gert ^a  

^a Femicare vzw   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARTHOLIN GLAND; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDYLOMA; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; FOCAL VULVODYNIA SYNDROME; GENITAL HERPES; HUMAN; NURSE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TAMPON; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; URETHRAL PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VULVODYNIA; VULVOVAGINITIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; VULVODYNIA;

MICROPUS CALIFORNICUS;

EID: 83155192138     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.09.030     Document Type: Article

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