{"paper_id":"0b34d760-606b-4f1a-bed4-688d7901a6b4","body_text":"11.12 Conclusion\nThere are two distinct patient groups to whom ovarian embolization can be applied. The more frequent and traditional indication is chronic pelvic pain. Pelvic congestion syndrome remains a poorly understood entity whose existence, let alone appropriate criteria for diagnosis and methods of investigation and treatment are still under question. The similarity of outcomes between a wide variety of surgical procedures and varied methods of radiologic embolization do suggest that it is a real entity but we are lacking a robust method of identifying those patients in whom intervention is likely to result in symptom relief. Until the unlikely arrival of such a tool, it bears repeating that there are few areas of interventional radiology where the correlation of clinical presentation and radiologic findings is of more importance than pelvic congestion. 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