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General Features of Pelvic Cancer Pain

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The pelvis contains manifold and complexly innervated structures that are potential sources of pain. As a consequence, in pelvic cancer diseases, several factors cause pain, such as the primary solid tumors of the pelvic organs and other pelvic tissues, the metastatic tumors, or the nodal conglomerates causing mass effect. Thus, the pelvic cancer pain is a clinical condition related to the involvement of viscera, pelvic muscular structures, or neural structures due to primitive tumors, local recurrences, or metastasis. Additionally, pain may also follow the treatments of the pelvic masses, for example, the chemotherapy, the radiotherapy, and the surgery.

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    Marco Cascella & Arturo Cuomo

  2. Department Clinical Neurosc, Anesth Pharmacol, University “Federico II” Naples, Naples, Italy

    Daniela Viscardi

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Cascella, M., Cuomo, A., Viscardi, D. (2016). General Features of Pelvic Cancer Pain. In: Features and Management of the Pelvic Cancer Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33587-2_1

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