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)
Related Resources
PubMed ID
26062637
Repository Citation
Dupuis, Carolyn S. and Kim, Young H., "Ultrasonography of adnexal causes of acute pelvic pain in pre-menopausal non-pregnant women" (2015). Open Access Articles. 2601.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/2601
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
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