S. Jean Emans

Heightened publicity about hormonal contraception and thrombosis risk and the publication of new guidelines by the World Health Organization in 2009 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2010 addressing this complex issue ha…

Dysfunctional uterine bleeding is defined as abnormal endometrial bleeding without structural pathology. Although, abnormal uterine bleeding may occur in women of all ages, it is a particularly common issue for adolescents. This article rev…

Study objectiveTo evaluate adolescent girls with chronic pelvic pain not responding to conventional medical therapy, using advances in operative laparoscopy to determine endometriosis prevalence, clinical stage, and type of lesion.DesignA d…

Endometriosis was encountered in 66 of 140 patients (47%) who underwent laparoscopy for chronic pelvic pain at Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center. Pelvic pain associated with this diagnosis was both cyclic and acyclic and typically b…

Between July, 1974 and February, 1979, 109 adolescent girls, ranging in age from 10 1/2 to 19 yr. with unexplained chronic pelvic pain, underwent diagnostic laparoscopy. Endometriosis was the most common finding occurring in 49 patients (45…