Open AccessNon-Hunner’s Interstitial Cystitis Is Different from Hunner’s Interstitial Cystitis and May Be Curable by Uterosacral Ligament Repair
Author(s) -
Klaus Goeschen,
D. M. Gold,
Bernhard Liedl,
Alexander Yassouridis,
Peter Petros
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
urologia internationalis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.771
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1423-0399
pISSN - 0042-1138
DOI - 10.1159/000524321
Subject(s) - medicine , interstitial cystitis , uterosacral ligament , urology , surgery , anatomy , urinary system , vagina
The posterior fornix syndrome (PFS) was first described in 1993 as a predictably occurring group of symptoms: chronic pelvic pain (CPP), urge, frequency, nocturia, emptying difficulties/urinary retention, caused by uterosacral ligament (USL) laxity, and cured by repair thereof.