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Chronic Pelvic Pain Causes
- Causes: Urinary Tract (5% of Chronic Pelvic Pain)
- Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
- Urethral syndrome (urethritis)
- Interstitial Cystitis
- Recent evidence suggests very common cause
- May be responsible for 33% of Chronic Pelvic Pain
- Clemons (2002) Obstet Gynecol 100:337
- Causes: Gastrointestinal (20-30% of Chronic Pelvic Pain)
- Irritable Bowel Disease
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Crohn's Disease
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Hernia
- Causes: Musculoskeletal (Abdominal wall Trigger Points)
- Responds to local 0.5% Marcaine injection
- Causes: Psychological
- Major Depression
- Sexual abuse history
- Causes: Gynecologic
- Endometriosis
- Chronic Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
- Pelvic Adhesions
- Mittelschmerz
- Ovarian Remnant Syndrome
- Pelvic Congestion Syndrome
- Cyclic Pelvic or Uterine pain
- Primary Dysmenorrhea
- Secondary Dysmenorrhea
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