Surgery no benefit for women with noncyclic chronic pelvic pain

According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, despite the frequent use of invasive surgical procedures to treat women with noncyclic chronic pelvic pain, little evidence supports a surgical approach. The new review from AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program has found in general, a lack of high quality research available to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of both surgical and nonsurgical treatment options for noncyclic (not occurring during menstruation) chronic pelvic pain.