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Chronic pelvic pain in women: etiology, pathogenesis and diagnostic approach
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Chronic pelvic pain (CPP), defined as non-cyclic pain of 6 or more months, is a frequent disorder that may negatively affect health-related quality of life. In women several causes are recognised, although in a not negligible proportion of patients a definite diagnosis cannot be made. Different neurophysiological mechanisms are involved in the pathophysiology of CPP. Pain may be classified as nociceptive or non-nociceptive. In the first case the symptom originates from stimulation of a pain-sensitive structure, whereas in the second pain is considered neuropatic or psychogenic. Patients history is crucial and is generally of utmost importance for a correct diagnosis, being sometimes more indicative than several diagnostic investigations. The main contributing factors in women with CPP can still be identified by history and physical examination in most cases. Many disorders of the reproductive tract, urological organs, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal and psycho-neurological systems may be associated with CPP. Excluding endometriosis, the most frequent causes of CPP are: post-operative adhesions, pelvic varices, interstitial cystitis and irritable bowel syndrome. CPP is a symptom, not a disease, and rarely reflects a single pathologic process. Gaining women's trust and developing a strong patient-physician relationship is of utmost importance for the long-term outcome of care.
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“The fact that surgical removal or destruction of lesions alleviates pain in some patients indicates that lesions contribute to pain (Vercellini et al., 2009b)”
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“Treating endometriomas is not straightforward as their association with pain is unclear (Chapron et al., 2002;Vercellini et al., 2009b).”
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“Furthermore, not all women undergoing re-operation have endometriosis at second surgery (Vercellini et al., 2009b)”
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“Third, severity of pain symptoms does not correlate with extent of disease (Kennedy et al., 2005;Vercellini et al., 2009b).”
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“Treating DIE lesions has a greater potential for benefit than treating other lesion types (Fauconnier and Chapron, 2005;Vercellini et al., 2009b).”
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“First, seemingly complete surgical removal fails to alleviate pain for at least a year in up to 50% of carefully selected patients (Vercellini et al., 2009b).”
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“The approach to surgical treatment of endometriosis in women with CPP is based on the oncologic principle of removing all lesions (Howard, 2003;Vercellini et al., 2009b).”
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“Second, even in patients whose pain was alleviated by surgically treating lesions, pain often returns, sometimes without evidence of new lesions (Abbott et al., 2003;Vercellini et al., 2009b).”
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“Although excision of the pseudocapsule helps to prevent recurrence”
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“excision may lead to diminished ovarian reserve, subsequent infertility and premature ovarian insufficiency (Vercellini et al., 2006b(Vercellini et al., , 2009b)).”
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“Visual survey at surgery is the accepted standard, but may not accurately catalogue the location, depth and extent of lesions.”
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“The role of adhesions in pain and endometriosis is poorly understood”
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“Furthermore, minimal and mild disease are not necessarily histologically confirmed, which may result in misclassifying cases”
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“women with endometriosis have a higher rate of other pain syndromes associated with peripheral and central sensitization such as irritable bowel syndrome, painful bladder syndrome, fibromyalgia and migraine headache”
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“Third, change in endometriosis score has been used to assess treatment effect with the assumption, but no evidence, that lesion score correlates with pain score”
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- Vercellini, P., Somigliana, E., Viganò, P., Abbiati, A., Barbara, G., & Fedele, L.
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- University of Milan (IT)
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- Vercellini, Paolo
- Venue
- Gynecological Endocrinology
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- Informa UK Limited
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- 2009-01
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- 25
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- 149-158
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- 1473-0766
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- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Menstrual Health and Disorders
- Keywords
- chronic pelvic pain, women, etiology, pathogenesis, neurophysiological mechanisms, nociceptive pain, neuropathic pain, psychogenic pain, diagnostic approach, medical history, endometriosis, postoperative adhesions, pelvic varices, interstitial cystitis, irritable bowel syndrome, reproductive tract disorders, urological diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, health-related quality of life, physician-patient relationship
- MeSH terms
- Chronic Disease, Family Health, Female, Gynecology, Humans, Reproductive History, Pelvic Pain
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
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