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Sexual Rehabilitation of the Spinal-Cord-Injured Patient

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The peripheral and low central innervations of the genital and lower urinary tracts are similar. Both areas receive sympathetic, parasym-pathetic, and somatic innervation from identical or adjacent thoracolumbar and sacral cord areas. Major afferent pathways are shared or closely related (1-3), and it is not surprising, therefore, that urologic disease processes initiated by neural lesions adversely influence sexual function.

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  1. University Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

    E. J. McGuire MD, FACS

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  1. Spinal Cord Injury Service, VA Medical Center, East Orange, New Jersey

    Jose Florante J. Leyson (Director, Clinical Chief, Chief of Surgery) (Director, Clinical Chief, Chief of Surgery)

  2. 322nd US Army General Hospital, Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey

    Jose Florante J. Leyson (Director, Clinical Chief, Chief of Surgery) (Director, Clinical Chief, Chief of Surgery)

  3. Centerfor Sexual Dysfunctions and Neurourology, VA Medical Center, East Orange, New Jersey

    Jose Florante J. Leyson (Director, Clinical Chief, Chief of Surgery) (Director, Clinical Chief, Chief of Surgery)

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McGuire, E.J. (1991). Sexuality and Urology. In: Leyson, J.F.J. (eds) Sexual Rehabilitation of the Spinal-Cord-Injured Patient. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0467-1_5

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