UMMS Affiliation

Department of Radiology

Publication Date

2015-10-01

Document Type

Article

Disciplines

Emergency Medicine | Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications | Obstetrics and Gynecology | Radiology | Women's Health

Abstract

Acute-onset pelvic pain is an extremely common symptom in premenopausal women presenting to the emergency department. After excluding pregnancy in reproductive-age women, ultrasonography plays a major role in the prompt and accurate diagnosis of adnexal causes of acute pelvic pain, such as hemorrhagic ovarian cysts, endometriosis, ovarian torsion, and tubo-ovarian abscess. Its availability, relatively low cost, and lack of ionizing radiation make ultrasonography an ideal imaging modality in women of reproductive age. The primary goal of imaging in these patients is to distinguish between adnexal causes of acute pelvic pain that may be managed conservatively or medically, and those requiring emergency/urgent surgical or percutaneous intervention.

Keywords

Pelvic pain, Adnexa uteri, Fallopian tube diseases, Ovary, Endometriosis, Ultrasonography

Rights and Permissions

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

DOI of Published Version

10.14366/usg.15013

Source

Ultrasonography. 2015 Oct;34(4):258-67. doi: 10.14366/usg.15013. Epub 2015 May 9. Link to article on publisher's site

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea)

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Link to Article in PubMed

PubMed ID

26062637

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License

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