Pudendal Nerve Injection

Authors

Philip Peng, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.P.C.
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesia
University of Toronto

Rachael Seib, M.D.
Department of Anesthesia
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Commentary

Bernhard Moriggl, M.D.
Professor
Innsbruck Medical University
Innsbruck, Austria

Introduction - TOP

Pain involving the sensory distribution of the pudendal nerve is referred to "pudendal neuralgia." It commonly presents as chronic debilitating pain in the penis, scrotum, labia, perineum or anorectal region.1 Compression of the pudendal nerve somewhere along its course is considered a major etiology of pudendal neuralgia2,3 and nerve block at the compression site helps with diagnosis and treatment.1

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