Increased sexual health after restored genital sensation in male patients with spina bifida or a spinal cord injury: The TOMAX procedure

Journal of Urology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 626-632

  Overgoor, M L E ^a   De Jong, T P V M ^b   Cohen Kettenis, P T ^d   Edens, M A ^a   Kon, M ^c  

^a ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

pudendal nerve; sexuality; spinal cord injuries; spinal dysraphism; spinal nerve roots

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; MALE; MASTURBATION; PENILE SENSATION; PENIS GLANS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSATION; SENSORY NERVE; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SEXUALITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOMAX PROCEDURE; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PENIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SENSATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872136589     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2012.10.020     Document Type: Article

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