We study existence and uniqueness of solutions to a nonlinear elliptic boundary value problem with a general, and possibly singular, lower order term, whose model isHere Ω is an open bounded subset of R N (N ≥ 2), ∆ p u := div(|∇u| p−2 ∇u) (1 < p < N ) is the p-laplacian operator, µ is a nonnegative bounded Radon measure on Ω and H(s) is a continuous, positive and finite function outside the origin which grows at most as s −γ , with γ ≥ 0, near zero.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 35J60, 35J61, 35J75, 35R06.