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Anorectal Pain, Rectal Pain, Anal Pain, Proctalgia, Rectalgia, Dyschezia

  • Definitions
  1. Dyschezia
    1. Painful Defecation
  • Causes
  • Local pain
  1. Anal Fissure
  2. Anorectal Abscess or foreign body
  3. Colonic Endometriosis
  4. External Hemorrhoids (thrombosed or infected)
  5. Internal Hemorrhoids (ache after Bowel Movement)
  6. Fecal Impaction or Constipation
  7. Myopathy (hereditary)
  8. Neoplasm
  9. Prostatitis
  10. Functional Rectal Pain
    1. Proctalgia Fugax
    2. Levator Ani Syndrome
  • Causes
  • Referred pain
  1. Coccygodynia
  2. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
  3. Sacral Nerve Compression
    1. Tumor mass
    2. Infection
    3. Inflammation
  4. Uterine Myoma
  • Reference
  1. Nidore (1995) Am Fam Physician 52(8):2238-40 [PubMed]