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Acute Pelvic Pain

Aka: Acute Pelvic Pain, Pelvic Pain
  1. See Also
    1. Chronic Pelvic Pain
    2. Chronic Pelvic Pain in Men
    3. Acute Abdominal Pain
  2. Causes: Acute Pelvic Pain
    1. See Acute Pelvic Pain Causes
    2. See Acute Abdominal Pain Causes
    3. See Suprapubic Abdominal Pain
  3. Labs
    1. Complete Blood Count
    2. Urinalysis and Urine Culture
    3. Cervical swab for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia
    4. Urine Pregnancy Test
  4. Imaging
    1. Transvaginal Pelvic Ultrasound
    2. Consider other imaging in non-pregnant patient
      1. Flat and upright abdomen
      2. CT Pelvis

Pelvic Pain (C0030794)

Definition (MSH) 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)
Concepts Sign or Symptom (T184)
MSH D017699
English Pain in pelvis, Pelvic Pain, Pelvic Pains
Spanish dolor pelviano, dolor pelvico
Parent Concepts Pain (C0030193), Pain of truncal structure (C0578056), Finding of pelvic structure (C1562648)
Sources COSTAR , MSH, MTH, NCI, NDFRT, SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)


Acute pelvic pain (C1282322)

Concepts Sign or Symptom (T184)
English Acute pelvic pain
Spanish dolor pelvico agudo
Parent Concepts Pelvic Pain (C0030794), Acute onset pain (C0184567)
Sources SCTSPA , SNOMEDCT
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)


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