Chronic pelvic pain in women: Still a challenge

BJU International

Volumn 102, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1061-1065

  Dalpiaz, Orietta ^a   Kerschbaumer, Andrea ^a   Mitterberger, Michael ^a   Pinggera, Germar ^a   Bartsch, Georg ^a   Strasser, Hannes ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chronic pelvic pain; Diagnosis; Quality of life; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; FLUOXETINE; GONADORELIN AGONIST; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PAROXETINE; SERTRALINE; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; TIZANIDINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANXIETY DISORDER; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; COMORBIDITY; CRYOTHERAPY; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENTEROPATHY; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; NERVE BLOCK; OVARY CYST; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; STRETCHING EXERCISE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53849112974     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07771.x     Document Type: Review

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