[Disorders in sexual function after hysterectomy]

The authors studied 120 women with hysterectomy, divided into 4 groups according to the volume of the surgical intervention (with preserved or removed cervix uteri and with preserved or eliminated ovaria). In the groups do not enter hysterectomies of oncological diseases and of patients with vaginal hysterectomy. The authors found a disturbed sexual function. Towards the different biological problems exist and a psychological one, the stress and the inhibited self-esteem from the loss of the important for the woman's functioning organs. In a small part of the operated patients was observed an increased sexual activity, as a psychological compensation of the inferiority feeling.