Rates of self-reported urinary, gastrointestinal, and pain comorbidities in women with vulvar lichen sclerosus

Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 285-289

  Berger, Mitchell B ^a   Damico, Nicholas J ^a   Menees, Stacy B ^a   Fenner, Dee E ^a   Haefner, Hope K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

gastrointestinal diseases; hypothyroidism; lichen sclerosus; overactive; pain; urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; IRRITABLE COLON; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; THYROID DISEASE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VULVA PAIN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CYSTITIS, INTERSTITIAL; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS; UROLOGIC DISEASES; VULVAR LICHEN SCLEROSUS; VULVODYNIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863592549     PISSN: 10892591     EISSN: 15260976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/LGT.0b013e3182562f1e     Document Type: Review

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