Impact of bowel and stoma dysfunction on female sexuality after treatment for rectal cancer.
Anne ThyøS LaurbergKatrine Jøssing EmmertsenPublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2020)
Both bowel dysfunction and stoma dysfunction negatively, but differently, affect sexuality. After restorative surgery, bowel dysfunction was primarily associated with sexual dysfunction while poor stoma function after abdominoperineal excision was associated with sexual inactivity.