 Pelvic Pain
"Pelvic Pain" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Pain in the pelvic region of genital and non-genital origin and of organic or psychogenic etiology. Frequent causes of pain are distension or contraction of hollow viscera, rapid stretching of the capsule of a solid organ, chemical irritation, tissue ischemia, and neuritis secondary to inflammatory, neoplastic, or fibrotic processes in adjacent organs. (Kase, Weingold & Gershenson: Principles and Practice of Clinical Gynecology, 2d ed, pp479-508)
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D017699
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.888.646.587
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| Concept/Terms |
Pelvic Pain- Pelvic Pain
- Pain, Pelvic
- Pains, Pelvic
- Pelvic Pains
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pelvic Pain" by people in Profiles.
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Farrell MR, Dugan SA, Levine LA. Physical therapy for chronic scrotal content pain with associated pelvic floor pain on digital rectal exam. Can J Urol. 2016 Dec; 23(6):8546-8550.
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Levine LA, Hoeh MP. Evaluation and management of chronic scrotal content pain. Curr Urol Rep. 2015 Jun; 16(6):36.
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Prather H, Dugan S, Fitzgerald C, Hunt D. Review of anatomy, evaluation, and treatment of musculoskeletal pelvic floor pain in women. PM R. 2009 Apr; 1(4):346-58.
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Singh AK, Desai H, Novelline RA. Emergency MRI of acute pelvic pain: MR protocol with no oral contrast. Emerg Radiol. 2009 Mar; 16(2):133-41.
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Prather H, Spitznagle TM, Dugan SA. Recognizing and treating pelvic pain and pelvic floor dysfunction. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2007 Aug; 18(3):477-96, ix.
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Borg-Stein J, Dugan SA. Musculoskeletal disorders of pregnancy, delivery and postpartum. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2007 Aug; 18(3):459-76, ix.
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Turner JA, Ciol MA, Von Korff M, Liu YW, Berger R. Men with pelvic pain: perceived helpfulness of medical and self-management strategies. Clin J Pain. 2006 Jan; 22(1):19-24.
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Ullrich PM, Turner JA, Ciol M, Berger R. Stress is associated with subsequent pain and disability among men with nonbacterial prostatitis/pelvic pain. Ann Behav Med. 2005 Oct; 30(2):112-8.
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Borg-Stein J, Dugan SA, Gruber J. Musculoskeletal aspects of pregnancy. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2005 Mar; 84(3):180-92.
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Fardon D. From the gynecology clinic...in which pelvic pain was eventually discovered to be the result of an occult disc space infection at a previously fused segment. Spine J. 2002 Jul-Aug; 2(4):310-1.
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