Diseases

Pudendal Neuralgia

Pain associated with a damaged PUDENDAL NERVE. Clinical features may include positional pain with sitting in the perineal and genital areas, sexual dysfunction and FECAL INCONTINENCE and URINARY INCONTINENCE.

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Abstract

Pain associated with a damaged PUDENDAL NERVE. Clinical features may include positional pain with sitting in the perineal and genital areas, sexual dysfunction and FECAL INCONTINENCE and URINARY INCONTINENCE.

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15 entry terms
  • Neuralgia, Pudendal
  • Pudendal Neuropathy
  • Neuralgias, Pudendal
  • Neuropathies, Pudendal
  • Neuropathy, Pudendal
  • Pudendal Neuralgias
  • Pudendal Neuropathies
  • Pudendal Canal Entrapment Syndrome
  • Pudendal Nerve Entrapment
  • Pudendal Nerve Entrapment Syndrome
  • Entrapment, Pudendal Nerve
  • Entrapments, Pudendal Nerve
  • Nerve Entrapment, Pudendal
  • Nerve Entrapments, Pudendal
  • Pudendal Nerve Entrapments

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35 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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History Note

2012

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Previous Indexing

  • Nerve Compression Syndromes (1981-2111)
  • Neuralgia (1982-2011)
  • Pelvis (1989-2011)
  • Perineum (1982-2011)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Pudendal Neuralgia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D060545. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D060545
  2. Pudendal Neuralgia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudendal_nerve_entrapment
  3. Pudendal Neuralgia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1987592