Psychologic, relational, and sexual functioning in women after surgical treatment of vulvar malignancy: A prospective controlled study

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 372-380

  Aerts, Leen ^a   Enzlin, Paul ^a,b   Verhaeghe, Johan ^a   Vergote, Ignace ^a   Amant, Frédéric ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Research Fund Flanders (FOW)   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Quality of life; Sexual function; Survivors of cancer; Vulvar malignancy; Vulvectomy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYADIC ADJUSTMENT SCALE; DYSPAREUNIA; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; ORGASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUALITY; SHORT SEXUAL FUNCTIONING SCALE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPECIFIC SEXUAL PROBLEMS QUESTIONNAIRE; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BELGIUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84893731291     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IGC.0000000000000035     Document Type: Article

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