Sexual functioning and vaginal changes after radical vaginal trachelectomy in early stage cervical cancer patients: A longitudinal study

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 595-604

  Froeding, Ligita Paskeviciute ^a   Ottosen, Christian ^b   Rung Hansen, Helle ^c   Svane, Danny ^b   Mosgaard, Berit Jul ^b   Jensen, Pernille Tine ^d  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^c Herlev Primary Care Center   (Denmark)

^d ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cevical Cancer; Quality of Life; Radical Hysterectomy; Radical Trachelectomy; Sexual Functioning

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DISTRESS SCALE; FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION INDEX; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; ORGASM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADICAL ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; RADICAL VAGINAL TRACHELECTOMY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINAL DRYNESS; CEVICAL CANCER; LIBIDO; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; RADICAL TRACHELECTOMY; SEXUALITY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VAGINA; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

CEVICAL CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; RADICAL TRACHELECTOMY; SEXUAL FUNCTIONING;

ADULT; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY, VAGINAL; LIBIDO; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; ORGASM; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899475485     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12399     Document Type: Article

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