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Chronic pelvic pain may be defined as on going pelvic pain or discomfort that results in suffering with psychological and social consequences for a period of more than 6 months. For the purposes of this chapter it does not include pain due to primary, secondary or recurrent malignant disease.
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Meurette, G., Labat, JJ. (2008). Pain Syndromes. In: Herold, A., Lehur, PA., Matzel, K., O'Connell, P. (eds) Coloproctology. European Manual of Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71217-6_13
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