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Sexual dysfunction as a complication of abdominoperineal resection of the rectum in the male

An anatomic and physiologic study

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  1. From the Department of Surgery and Division of Proctology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    David M. Long Jr. M.D. (Medical Fellow in Surgery) & William C. Bernstein M.D. (Director)

  2. Division of Proctology, USA

    William C. Bernstein M.D. (Director)

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Read at the meeting of the American Proctologic Society, Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 15 to 17, 1959.

The teaching and research projects in the Division of Proctology at the University of Minnesota Medical School are supported by funds from the Annie and Louis Paper Foundation.

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Long, D.M., Bernstein, W.C. Sexual dysfunction as a complication of abdominoperineal resection of the rectum in the male. Dis Colon Rectum 2, 540–548 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02617006

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