Standard Operating Procedures for Female Genital Sexual Pain

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 83-93

  Fugl Meyer, Kerstin S ^a   Bohm Starke, Nina ^b   Damsted Petersen, Christina ^c   Fugl Meyer, Axel ^d   Parish, Sharon ^e   Giraldi, Annamaria ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyspareunia; Epidemiology; Genital Sexual Pain; Pain Management; Sexual Disorders; Vaginismus; Vulvodynia

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; DESIPRAMINE; HORMONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LIDOCAINE; PLACEBO; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DYSPAREUNIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVENING DOSAGE; FATIGUE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL PAIN; FEMALE GENITAL SEXUAL PAIN; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LICHEN PLANUS; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MARITAL THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; STANDARD; VAGINISM; VAGINITIS; VULVODYNIA;

EID: 84872841541     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02867.x     Document Type: Article

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