Management of Pelvic Pain

Kaily R. Cox, Donna Shoupe, Anna Reinert
In: Handbook of Gynecology · 2023 · pp. 201–218 · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-14881-1_86 · W4389252543
book-chapter OA: closed CC0
Limited metadata. Only one source feed has indexed this record so far — no abstract, full text, or open-access copy is available through Endo Lab. The publisher's page (linked below) is the canonical location for the actual content. If you have institutional access, use "Find at my library".
View at publisher → View on OpenAlex
⚙ AI-generated summary by claude@2026-06+body, 2026-06-06 ⓘ

Pelvic pain in women is a diverse condition with gynecologic, urologic, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, neurologic, and vascular origins, requiring careful history, exam, and diagnostics for effective management.

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

⚙ AI-generated deep summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-06 ⓘ

This chapter reviews the causes and management approaches for pelvic pain in women, emphasizing that etiologies span gynecologic and non-gynecologic sources and range from acute, potentially life-threatening causes to chronic pain syndromes. It argues that dividing pelvic pain into acute versus chronic and performing a careful history and physical exam followed by targeted laboratory and diagnostic studies is crucial to narrow the differential diagnosis and guide management, given that treatment varies by etiology. The major caveat is that it is a narrative, non-empirical handbook chapter rather than a single study with specific methods or outcomes. Relevance to endometriosis: it explicitly lists endometriosis among the etiologies of pelvic pain and discusses it within the broader framework of acute and chronic pelvic pain management, though the paper’s main focus is overall pelvic pain diagnosis and management rather than endometriosis alone.

Read from the paper's body, not the abstract. Not a substitute for reading the paper. No clinical advice. How this works

My notes (saved in your browser only)

Citation neighborhood

Papers in the corpus that this work cites (lower rings, blue) and that cite this one (upper rings, green). Dot size scales with the paper's in-corpus citation count — bigger dot = more influential within the endo/adeno field. Click a dot to open that paper. [ expand to 2 hops ] — adds papers reached through this work's immediate citers/citees. Heavier; up to 60 extra dots.

References (30)

Source provenance

openalex
last seen: 2026-06-10T17:14:06.276822+00:00
License: CC0 · commercial use OK