 Pelvic Pain
"Pelvic Pain" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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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) |
C23.888.592.612.944
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| Concept/Terms |
Pelvic Pain- Pelvic Pain
- Pain, Pelvic
- Pains, Pelvic
- Pelvic Pains
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| 1999 | 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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Zupi E, Sbracia M, Marconi D, Zullo F, Santi K, Solima E, Romanini C. Pain mapping during minilaparoscopy in infertile patients without pathology. J Am Assoc Gynecol Laparosc. 1999 Feb; 6(1):51-4.
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