Pelvic Inflammatory Disease — An Overview

J. Pearce
In: The Fallopian Tube · 1994 · pp. 171–179 · doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-1987-6_13 · W85983413
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Pelvic inflammatory disease is an inflammation of the upper female genital tract, often poorly diagnosed and treated, leading to significant physical and psychological consequences for affected women.

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This paper provides an overview of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), describing it as inflammation of the upper female genital tract that includes endometritis, salpingitis, and salpingo-oophoritis, with possible spread to the peritoneum and paracolic gutters leading to Fitzhugh-Curtis syndrome. It notes that about 1% of women experience at least one attack, and emphasizes that PID is often poorly diagnosed and incompletely treated, contributing to substantial physical and psychological sequelae. As a contextual observation, it also discusses potential marital disharmony related to suspicions of unfaithfulness and subsequent dyspareunia, menstrual irregularities, or childlessness. The paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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