Acute and chronic pelvic pain in the adolescent patient needs to be taken seriously. In most cases, an underlying cause can be identified. Under no circumstances should the label of psychogenic pain be offered on these teenagers without a p…
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…
GOLDSTEIN, DONALD P.; NUDEMBERG, FRANKLIN; LYMEBURNER, NANCY; LEVESQUE, LINDA; SHORE, CHRISTINE Author Information