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Pelvic pain in women: common and challenging
Author(s) -
Farquhar Cynthia M
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01941.x
Subject(s) - obstetrics and gynaecology , medicine , medical journal , citation , library science , family medicine , computer science , pregnancy , genetics , biology
elv see rea P ic pain in women is as common as the common cold, it ms. Certainly that is the impression one is left with after ding the article by Pitts et al (page 138) on the prevalence and correlates of pelvic pain in Australian women. Pitts and colleagues found that 72% of women experienced dysmenorrhoea and only one in four women did not report any kind of pelvic pain. A systematic review of international studies reported a .