CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Revista Urología Colombiana / Colombian Urology Journal 2018; 27(01): 025-034
DOI: 10.1016/j.uroco.2017.04.005
Review Article | Artículo de Revisión
Sociedad Colombiana de Urología. Publicado por Thieme Revinter Publicações Ltda Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Neuropatía del pudendo como causa de dolor pélvico

Pudendal neuropathy as a cause of pelvic pain
Verónica Tobar Roa
1   Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga; Uróloga Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Máster Universitario de Investigación Clínica en Donación y Trasplante de Órganos, Tejidos y Células, Universidad de Barcelona; Uróloga, Centro Urológico Foscal, Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia
,
María Fernanda Rojas Gómez
2   Universidad Industrial de Santander; Anestesióloga, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada; Fellow Anestesia Regional guiada por Ultrasonido programa CLASA-WFSA-SBA; Anestesióloga Sociedad Especializada de Anestesiología SEA S.A., Clínica Carlos Ardila Lulle, Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia
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Ana María Gómez González
3   Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga; Residente de Segundo año de Urología, Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia
,
Ana María Ortiz Zableh
4   Interna, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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Further Information

Publication History

21 February 2017

16 April 2017

Publication Date:
10 January 2018 (online)

Resumen

El síndrome de atrapamiento del nervio pudendo es una de múltiples causas de dolor pélvico crónico. Hemos realizado una revisión de la literatura sobre su presentación clínica, diagnóstico y tratamiento, con el propósito de conocer los detalles más relevantes de una enfermedad que cada vez está siendo más diagnosticada, con el fin de realizar un abordaje precoz desde un punto de vista integral.

Abstract

Pudendal neuralgia due to pudendal nerve entrapment is one of the many causes of chronic pelvic pain. A literature was carried out as regards its clinical presentation, and diagnostic and therapeutic approach, in order to understand the most relevant details of this disorder that is increasingly being diagnosed, with the purpose of implementing an early approach from an integral perspective.

Financiación

Las autoras declaran no haber recibido ningún tipo de apoyo financiero para la realización del presente trabajo.


 
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