Chronic Pelvic Pain

This chapter addresses chronic pelvic pain in gynecologic practice, outlining a structured, multifactorial framework for evaluation and management. It discusses approaches to history and physical examination, laboratory and diagnostic studies, building a differential diagnosis, and then considering treatment options. The paper’s explicit limitation is that it functions as an overview of common causes and diagnostic/treatment pathways rather than presenting original data. Relevance to endometriosis: the chapter is included in the corpus because it is focused on pelvic pain in obstetrics/gynecology, a category that commonly encompasses endometriosis-related evaluation even though this specific text excerpt does not explicitly mention endometriosis or adenomyosis.

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