[Chronic pelvic pain in women. A condition difficult to diagnose--more than 70 different diagnoses can be considered].

Lennart Hahn, L Hahn
Lakartidningen · 2001 · vol. 98(15) , pp. 1780–5 · PMID:11374004 · W2395231716
article OA: closed CC0 ⤵ 2 in-corpus citations
View on OpenAlex View on PubMed
⚙ AI-generated summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-09 ⓘ

Chronic pelvic pain affects 15% of women aged 18-50, often with elusive causes despite invasive procedures, and may be linked to childhood abuse.

One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works

Abstract

Chronic pelvic pain, CPP, with a prevalence of about 15 percent of the female population between 18 and 50 years, has vast psychosocial and economic consequences. The cause(s) are often elusive despite invasive procedures including laparoscopy. There is a connection between CPP and abuse in childhood, sexual as well as non-sexual. Usually the woman initially seeks a gynecologist, who should have some knowledge also of lesser known causes of CPP such as pelvic congestion and nerve entrapments. A multidisciplinary approach can offer more possibilities to reach a plausible diagnosis and adequate treatment.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

Condition tags

endometriosischronic_pelvic_pain

MeSH descriptors

Pelvic Pain Adolescent Adult Child Child Abuse Child Abuse Child Abuse, Sexual Child Abuse, Sexual Chronic Disease Cost of Illness Diagnosis, Differential Endometriosis Endometriosis Female Humans Middle Aged Ovarian Diseases Ovarian Diseases Pelvic Pain Pelvic Pain

Citation neighborhood (sparse)

Too few in-corpus citations on either side for a chart; here are the lists.

Cited by (2)

Cited by (2)

Source provenance

europepmc
last seen: 2026-06-21T06:12:49.409960+00:00
openalex
last seen: 2026-06-10T17:14:06.276822+00:00
pubmed
last seen: 2026-05-13T22:13:24.901228+00:00
License: CC0 · commercial use OK