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Citation |
Bitzer J, Platano G, Tschudin S, Alder J. J. Sex. Med. 2007; 4(1): 29-37. |
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(Copyright © 2007, International Society for Sexual Medicine, Publisher John Wiley and Sons) |
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Abstract |
Introduction. Chronic medical conditions are frequently associated with sexual difficulties and problems, which are often underreported and underdiagnosed. Patients may feel that sexual problems in the context of disease are not important enough to be mentioned to their physicians, and physicians may feel uncomfortable and sometimes incompetent. Furthermore, the diagnostic criteria of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV and International Classification of Diseases-10 are focused on the phenomenology of the sexual response without any specificity regarding diseases. |