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Chronic Pelvic Pain, Laparoscopic Pain Mapping

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Encyclopedia of Pain

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Conscious Laparoscopic Pain Mapping; Pain Mapping; Conscious Pain Mapping; Patient Assisted Laparoscopy; Laparoscopy (for Pain) under Local Anesthesia; Laparoscopic Pain Mapping

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Laparoscopic pain mapping is a diagnostic laparoscopy under local anesthesia, with or without conscious sedation, performed with the goal of identifying sources or generators of pain in women with chronic pelvic pain. It has been suggested that laparoscopic pain mapping can lead to the treatment of subtle or atypical areas of disease that might have been overlooked if the procedure had been done under general anesthesia (Almeida and Val-Gallas 1997). Also, it may help to avoid surgical interventions when there are no surgically treatable pain generators present. However, there are limited data confirming these potential benefits (Demco 1997).

Laparoscopy under local anesthesia is not new, but its use as a diagnostic modality to localize areas of tenderness potentially responsible for chronic...

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Fred M. Howard

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  1. Physiological Institute, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Robert F. Schmidt

  2. Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

    William D. Willis

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Howard, F. (2007). Chronic Pelvic Pain, Laparoscopic Pain Mapping. In: Schmidt, R., Willis, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29805-2_710

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