Exploring gay couples experience with sexual dysfunction after radical prostatectomy: A qualitative study

Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 233-253

  Hartman, Mary Ellen ^a   Irvine, Jane ^b   Currie, Kristen L ^a   Ritvo, Paul ^b   Trachtenberg, Lianne ^a   Louis, Alyssa ^a   Trachtenberg, John ^a   Jamnicky, Leah ^c   Matthew, Andrew G ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; SILDENAFIL; SULFONE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIBIDO; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGASM; PENIS PROSTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATECTOMY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LIBIDO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGASM; PENILE PROSTHESIS; PIPERAZINES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; PURINES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SULFONES; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 84897595491     PISSN: 0092623X     EISSN: 15210715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0092623X.2012.726697     Document Type: Article

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