title: ISPOG European Consensus Statement - chronic pelvic pain in women (short version).
abstract: To date there is no international guideline on chronic pelvic pain available that focuses on medical, psychosomatic and psychological diagnostics and treatment of this complicated disease pattern. In this paper, a European working group, which was established in October 2010, aims to bridge this gap. The working group decided to use the current German guideline as source text and to transform it into a European consensus statement by deleting parts that apply only to the conditions of the German health system. The literature search included papers published up to and including December 2010, using Medline search and by adding some new search terms. This manuscript reports the essential facts of the above-mentioned consensus statement. Within this article we use the term "psychosomatic" as the integrated concept of medical and psychosocial aspects of a disease.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics , Martin-Luther-Hospital , Berlin , Germany .
authors.forename: Friederike
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Siedentopf
authors.affiliation: b Leiden University Medical Center , Leiden , Netherlands .
authors.forename: Philomeen
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Weijenborg
authors.affiliation: c Kalmaär läns landsting , Vastervik , Sweden .
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Engman
authors.affiliation: d Department of Gynaecology & Obstetrics , Hanusch-Hospital of the Vienna District Health Insurance Funds (WGKK) , Vienna , Austria .
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Maier
authors.affiliation: e Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of the Mother , Child and Infant, Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology , Modena , Italy .
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cagnacci
authors.affiliation: f Cabinet privé, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics , Paris , France .
authors.forename: Sylvain
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mimoun
authors.affiliation: g UK Salzburg , Psychosomatik , Salzburg , Austria , and.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wenger
authors.affiliation: h Fertility Center Berlin , Berlin , Germany.
authors.forename: Heribert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kentenich
mesh_terms: D059350:Chronic Pain; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods; D058748:Pain Perception; D017699:Pelvic Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011788:Quality of Life
keywords: Chronic pelvic pain; guideline; gynaecological pain; laparoscopic surgery; somatization disorders