Symptoms Experienced by Women Who Enter Into Natural and Surgical Menopause and Their Relation to Sexual Functions

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 525-539

  Topatan, Serap ^a   Yildiz, Hatice ^b  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SLEEP DISORDER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; MENTAL FATIGUE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 84861554021     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2011.646374     Document Type: Article

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