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Pelvic Congestion Syndrome [PDF]

open access: yesSeminars in Interventional Radiology, 2013
Pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS) is an important cause of chronic pelvic pain in female patients. Chronic pelvic pain, defined as lower abdominal or pelvic pain for a duration of 6 months or more, causes significant morbidity and results in a large number of diagnostic laparoscopies.
Lindsay Machan, Janette D Durham
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Pelvic Congestion Syndrome and Pelvic Varicosities

Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2014
Pelvic venous insufficiency (PVI), defined as retrograde flow in the gonadal and internal iliac veins, is the underlying cause of pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS), a common cause of disabling chronic pelvic pain in women of child-bearing age. PCS is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by positional pelvic pain that is worse in the upright position ...
Sonya, Koo, Chieh-Min, Fan
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Chronic pelvic congestion and pelvic pain

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1971
Abstract Attention is drawn to broad ligament lacerations and pelvic congestion as a cause for incapacitating pelvic pain, backache, and dyspareunia. Surgical repair of the lacerations usually eliminates the symptoms. Hysterectomy should be considered for those patients with the choronic pelvic congestion syndrome in which sterilization is also ...
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Pelvic Congestion Syndrome

Ultrasound Clinics, 2008
Radiologic imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis of pelvic congestion syndrome in patients with chronic pelvic pain. Pelvic congestion syndrome is a diagnosis of exclusion and differential diagnosis includes endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and ovarian cysts.
Karcaaltincaba, DENİZ   +2 more
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Pelvic Congestion Syndrome

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2002
There 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.
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Pelvic Congestion

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 1968
H J, Osofsky, S, Fisher
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Pelvic Venous Congestion

2014
Pelvic congestion is a diagnosis now infrequently made by gynecologists as a cause of chronic pelvic pain. Recent literature has been almost exclusively from radiological practice and does not always relate the diagnosis to pain. In this context the concept of pelvic congestion is reviewed from an historical perspective, clinical correlates identified,
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[Pelvic congestion syndrom].

Praxis, 2006
We describe imaging findings and interventional therapy of a 37-year old female patient suffering from chronic pelvic pain with associated vulvar varicosis. MR-angiography showed multiple varices in the left hemi-pelvis, a dilated draining vein from the left ovary as well as a left-sided vulvar varicosis, which was clinically evident.
B K, Chilla   +4 more
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