Therapeutic Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided High-Voltage Long-Duration Pulsed Radiofrequency for Pudendal Neuralgia

Table 1

Diagnostic criteria for pudendal neuralgia (Nantes criteria).

Essential criteria	Complementary diagnostic criteria	Exclusion criteria
Pain in the territory of the pudendal nerve; Pain is predominantly experienced while sitting; The pain does not wake the patient at night; Pain with no objective sensory impairment; Pain relieved by diagnostic pudendal nerve block	Burning, shooting, and stabbing pain, numbness; Allodynia or hyperpathia; Rectal or vaginal foreign body sensation (sympathalgia); Worsening of pain during the day; Predominantly unilateral pain; Pain triggered by defecation; Presence of exquisite tenderness on palpation of the ischial spine; Clinical neurophysiology findings in men or nulliparous women	Exclusively coccygeal, gluteal, pubic, or hypogastric pain; Pruritus; Exclusively paroxysmal pain; Imaging abnormalities able to account for the pain