Chronic Pelvic Pain as a Somatoform Disorder
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Chronic pelvic pain as a somatoform disorder.
BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine whether psychiatric disturbances, particularly somatization, and an increased number of traumatic and critical life events, which have been found in women with idiopathic chronic pelvic pain (ICPP), can also be observed in women with chronic pelvic pain and abdominal adhesions (ACPP). METHODS Forty women who underwent diagnostic laparoscop...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0033-3190,1423-0348
DOI: 10.1159/000012318