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Treatment of Ilioinguinal Entrapment Syndrome - an Often Overlooked Cause of Chronic Pelvic Pain

NCT01020162 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 19

Last updated 2009-11-25

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Summary

Neuralgic pain caused by entrapment of peripheral nerves is an often overlooked cause of chronic pelvic pain. The objective of the present study was to assess pain and quality of life in women with pain caused by entrapment of the ilioinguinal nerve, iatrogenic after surgery but also found without previous surgery. In a controlled prospective cross-over study 19 women were randomized either to medical treatment or to resection of the nerve. Statistically significant improvements were found after surgical resection.

Conditions

  • Chronic Pelvic Pain

Interventions

DRUG

Amitryptiline, gabapentin

For amitryptiline starting dose 20-30 mg at night, increasing until clinical effect. For gabapentin was the initial dose 300 mg tid with rapid increases up to 800 mg tid.

PROCEDURE

Resection of the ilioinguinal nerve

In general anaesthesia the nerve was identified and resected as central as possible

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Göteborg University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ian Milsom, MD,PhD · Dept Obstetrics&Gynecology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1995-09-30
Primary Completion
2006-12-31
Completion
2007-11-30

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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