When to suspect interstitial cystitis

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 340-348

  Whitmore, Kristene E ^a   Theoharides, Theoharis C ^b  

^a HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHONDROITIN; DIAZEPAM; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DOXEPIN; DULOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROXYZINE; MORPHINE; PENTOSAN POLYSULFATE; QUERCETIN; TRAMADOL;

ABUSE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CHRONIC PAIN; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYSTALGIA; CYSTOSCOPY; DIET THERAPY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE DURATION; DIURNAL ENURESIS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GUIDED IMAGERY; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; HYPNOSIS; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; LASER SURGERY; MEDITATION; MENTAL STRESS; MICTURITION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCTURIA; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSICAL STRESS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRICK TEST; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; SELF CARE; SKIN TEST; STRESS MANAGEMENT; URINALYSIS; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VULVA; VULVODYNIA; YOGA; REVIEW;

ADULT; CYSTITIS, INTERSTITIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 80053073376     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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