ENDOMETRIOSIS IN A YOUNG GIRL

In: Journal of the American Medical Association · 1948 · vol. 136(10) , pp. 690 · doi:10.1001/jama.1948.72890270008008a · PMID:18900427 · W2074483965
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This report details a case of endometriosis in an 11-year-old girl, a condition previously underdiagnosed in adolescents and linked to dysmenorrhea.

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Dr. John Fallon of Worcester, Mass., in the summer of 1946, reported 9 cases of endometriosis in girls under 20. Up to the time of his report endometriosis was not looked for in persons of teen age. Fallon drew attention to endometriosis as the cause of dysmenorrhea even in young girls. The case herein reported is, as far as I know, that of the youngest girl yet reported in whom symptoms referable to endometriosis appeared. B. S. was born Dec. 2, 1932. In August of her eleventh year, 1944, she had a slight, though definite, pain in the lower left quadrant of the abdomen, which lasted for three or four days. The pain recurred every month until after her twelfth birthday, when she first menstruated. At this time, April 1945, her first period was accompanied with the same pain noticed each of the previous months, but slightly greater. Thereafter the

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