Skene's gland revisited: Function, dysfunction and the G spot

International Urogynecology Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-137

  Dwyer, Peter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE PROSTATE ISOENZYME; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CLITORIS; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; GONAD; GONAD TUMOR; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUBRICATION; ORGASM; PARAURETHRAL DUCT; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; URETHRA; URETHRA DIVERTICULUM; URINARY TRACT FUNCTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINA; EDITORIAL; EXOCRINE GLAND; HISTOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

CLITORIS; EXOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ORGASM; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; URETHRA; VAGINA;

EID: 84861218749     PISSN: 09373462     EISSN: 14333023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00192-011-1558-1     Document Type: Review

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