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As discussed in previous chapters, chronic pelvic pain and psychogenic pain are at times interchangeable. The patient with chronic pelvic pain generally has medical, psychosocial, and behavioral problems as the following case represents.1,2
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Blackwell, R.E. (1998). Chronic Pain Syndrome: Its Origin, Pathophysiology, and Treatment. In: Blackwell, R.E., Olive, D.L. (eds) Chronic Pelvic Pain. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1752-7_9
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