Pudendal Neuralgia

Female Sexual Pain Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 112-118

  Peng, Philip W H ^a   Antolak, Stanley J ^b   Gordon, Allan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Center for Urologic and Pelvic Pain   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicycle riding associated with genital numbness and perineal pain secondary to pudendal nerve compression; Neurophysiologic testing; Pudendal nerve block and diagnosis; Pudendal nerve decompression surgery; Pudendal neuralgia; Pudendal neuralgia debilitating and associated with limitations and disability; Pudendal neuralgia management; Warm detection threshold (WDT) sensitive test for pudendal neuropathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957310946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308136.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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