Testicular prosthesis: Patient satisfaction and sexual dysfunctions in testis cancer survivors

Archivio Italiano di Urologia e Andrologia

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 186-188

  Catanzariti, Francesco ^a   Polito, Benedetta ^b   Polito, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b Universita Pontificia Salesiana   (Italy)

Author keywords

Patient satisfaction; Sexual dysfunction; Testicular cancer; Testicular prostheses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY ESTEEM SCALE; BODY EXPOSURE DURING SEXUAL ACTIVITIES QUESTIONNAIRE; CANCER SURVIVOR; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE ASSESSMENT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; ORCHIECTOMY; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PREMATURE EJACULATION DIAGNOSTIC TOOL; ROSENBERG SELF-ESTEEM SCALE; SCROTAL SWELLING; SELF-CONCEPT ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS PROSTHESIS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVOR; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

SILICONE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORCHIECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; SILICONES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85018899014     PISSN: 11243562     EISSN: 22824197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/aiua.2016.3.186     Document Type: Article

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