background: tubo-ovarian abscess as a serious complication of pelvic inflammatory disease is very uncommon in sexually inactive girls. case: we report a case of tubo-ovarian abscess in a 24-year-old sexually inactive girl with transverse vaginal septum who was presented with abdominal pain and a pelvic mass and without prior surgical history and no evidences of appendicitis, inflammatory bowel ...

It is a common assumption among women that lower abdominal discomfort, either central or lateral in distribution, is usually referred from the organs of reproduction and may properly be considered to be "pelvic pain." A man, with different anatomy, is unlikely to make this assumption and equates his "pelvic organs" with the reg'ion of the perineum. Thus pelvic pain is essentially a gynaecologic...

BACKGROUND To enhance the understanding of the pathophysiology of women with peripartum pelvic pain, it is necessary to couple anatomical insights with relevant clinical research. In this context, the long dorsal sacroiliac ligament is especially of interest because it was noticed that women diagnosed with peripartum pelvic pain frequently experience pain within the boundaries of this ligament....

A review of the literature revealed relatively few scientific studies investigating the effectiveness of treatment of peripartum pelvic joint pain, and no studies looking at primarily symphysis pubis pain. Generally, posterior pelvic pain has been considered to be the primary symptom of pelvic joint instability. According to Fry (1999), treatments for symphysis pubis dysfunction during pregnanc...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate factors predisposing women to chronic and recurrent pelvic pain. DESIGN, DATA SOURCES, AND METHODS: Systematic review of relevant studies without language restrictions identified through Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library. SCISEARCH, conference papers, and bibliographies of retrieved primary and review articles. Two reviewers independently extracted data on study ...

PURPOSE The impact of chronic pelvic pain syndrome on sexual function in men is underestimated. We quantified sexual dysfunction (ejaculatory pain, decreased libido, erectile dysfunction and ejaculatory difficulties) in men with chronic pelvic pain syndrome and assessed the effects of pelvic muscle trigger point release concomitant with paradoxical relaxation training. MATERIALS AND METHODS W...

OBJECTIVE To assess the cause of pain on diagnostic laparoscopy in women with chronic pelvic pain and equivocal clinical and ultrasound examination. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Red Crescent General Hospital, Hyderabad, Sindh, from January 2007 to December 2009. METHODOLOGY All the women presenting with chronic pelvic pain for more than 6 m...

BACKGROUND Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) is a bladder disease that causes debilitating pelvic pain of unknown origin, and IC/PBS symptoms correlate with elevated bladder lamina propria mast cell counts. Similar to IC/PBS patients, pseudorabies virus (PRV) infection in mice induces a neurogenic cystitis associated with bladder lamina propria mast cell accumulation and p...

Chronic pelvic pain is a challenging, often perplexing medical condition, affecting approximately 15% of women of reproductive age in the United States [1]. Chronic pelvic pain contributes significantly to health care costs, as it is the diagnosis that precedes up to 40% of diagnostic laparoscopies and 12% of hysterectomies [2]. With an estimated 20% of women with chronic pelvic pain seeking sp...

Objective Isthmoceles have been described as complications associated to caesarean section (CS). Only symptomatic isthmoceles should be treated. The main symptoms are abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in abscense of any other causes, pelvic pain and secondary infertility. There are several techniques described for the correction of isthmoceles. Isthmoplasty can be performed by hysteroscopy, lapar...