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Chronic Urogenital and Pelvic Pain

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Pain arising from pelvis may be difficult to diagnose due to the complex innervation of the visceral and somatic structures. Persistent acute noxious stimuli in the pelvis, as in other regions of the body, can lead to development chronic pelvic pain. Chronic pelvic pain constitutes a constellation of poorly understood complex disorders that are often non-responsive to conventional therapies. Neuromodulation has been used to provide pain relief to patients in whom injections with steroid/local anesthetics are unhelpful.

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  1. Department of Anaesthesia, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria

    Zakari A. Suleiman

  2. Ainsworth Institute of Pain Management, New York, NY, USA

    Corey W. Hunter

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  1. Pain Medicine Fellowship, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Yury Khelemsky

  2. Pain Medicine Fellowship, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Anuj Malhotra

  3. Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship, Department of Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA

    Karina Gritsenko

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Suleiman, Z.A., Hunter, C.W. (2019). Chronic Urogenital and Pelvic Pain. In: Khelemsky, Y., Malhotra, A., Gritsenko, K. (eds) Academic Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18005-8_38

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