"i Can't Get No Satisfaction": Deep dyspareunia and sexual functioning in women with rectovaginal endometriosis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Vercellini, Paolo ^a,b   Somigliana, Edgardo ^a   Buggio, Laura ^a   Barbara, Giussy ^a   Frattaruolo, Maria Pina ^a   Fedele, Luigi ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

case control study; chronic pelvic pain; deep dyspareunia; Endometriosis; sexual function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPAREUNIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RECTOVAGINAL ENDOMETRIOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84870359568     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.07.1129     Document Type: Article

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