1. Creatsas modified vaginoplasty as reconstructive treatment of vaginal stenosis due to vaginal or pelvic radiotherapy
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Víctor Lago, Luis Matute, Tiermes Marina, Sheila Vazquez, Santiago Domingo, and Pablo Padilla-Iserte
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medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Scar tissue ,Uterine Cervical Neoplasms ,Constriction, Pathologic ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Quality of life ,medicine ,Humans ,030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine ,Radiotherapy ,business.industry ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,Chemoradiotherapy ,Plastic Surgery Procedures ,Surgery ,Radiation therapy ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Sexual dysfunction ,Oncology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Vagina ,Vaginoplasty ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Pelvic radiotherapy ,Vaginal stenosis - Abstract
Female sexuality is a complex phenomenon with important repercussions on patients' quality of life. Women survivors of gynecological malignancy might have sexual dysfunction after cancer treatment. Surgical radicality and radiation therapy might cause scar tissue in the vagina, being a common long
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- 2020
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