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Author Spotlight: Quantifying Pain Experience – An Illustrative Approach Using the Pain Body Diagram
Published on: July 7, 2023
[Leg pain during menstrual period]
Imke M A Reinders1,2, Monique A L Bilderbeek3, Petra Bourdrez1
1Viecuri Medisch Centrum, afd. Gynaecologie, locatie Venlo.
Abstract:
A 31-year-old woman presented at the fertility department with primary subfertility since one year. Last year she had had progressive dysmenorrhea and pain in her right leg and groin during her menstrual period. MRI showed extensive pelvic endometriosis with a lesion in the right round ligament in the inguinal canal.
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